Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century.
Alongside Robert Rauschenberg, he helped pioneer Neo-Dada, challenging the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and everyday imagery. His use of familiar symbols, including flags, targets, numbers, and maps, became central to the development of Pop Art and contemporary art.
This signed lithographic poster was published on the occasion of Johns's exhibition Drawings at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, held January 10–31, 1970. Castelli was instrumental in establishing Johns's career, having given him his first solo exhibition in 1958 and representing him throughout much of his career.
The poster juxtaposes two distinct compositions: a densely worked, almost frenetic field of overlapping marks, and a delicate rendering of the American flag. The contrast between the heavily worked surface and the restrained, nearly transparent lines is characteristic of Johns's interest in repetition, process, and the relationship between image and symbol. Even in this modest graphic format, he transforms familiar imagery into something unexpectedly complex.
The work juxtaposes two of Johns's most enduring concerns: the expressive potential of drawing, and the transformation of familiar symbols through repetition and reinterpretation. As an exhibition poster, it is also a pointed historical document connecting Johns's artistic practice with the gallery that helped introduce his work to the world.
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"Drawings"
Poster for Jasper Johns: Drawings at Leo Castelli New York from January 10-31, 1970
Lithographic poster
Signed in pencil, lower right of image
Published by Leo Castelli, New York
Printed by Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York
From an unnumbered edition
28.5"H 22.5"W (work)
29"H 23"W (framed)
Overall good condition
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