26.1999: Cicada

Identification and Creation

Object Number

26.1999

People

Jasper Johns, American (Augusta, GA 1930 -)

Title

Cicada

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1980

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/193125

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Colored ink on plastic

Dimensions

sight: 81.28 x 65.41 cm (32 x 25 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: ink, lower edge: HNS 1980 CICADA JASPER JO
• label: backing board, paper, typed and handwritten: [typed:] CICADA- 1980 / Ink on plastic / 32 x 25 3/4" / Signed J. Johns / Jan 1980 / [graphite:] photograph / # 8656 / B. Davis
• exhibition label: backing board, paper, printed
• exhibition label: backing board, paper, printed and typed: CR1 (D-100)
• label: backing board, paper, printed: 20030 [two labels altogether, with Castelli's phone number and cataloguing information]
• label: backing board, paper, printed: Private Collection of Leo Castelli
• label: backing board, paper, printed: Obra 9
• label: #4948

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Antoinette Castelli, New York, New York. Jean-Christophe Castelli, New York, New York.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Collection Jean-Christophe Castelli, Class of 1985

Copyright

© Jasper Johns / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Object Number

26.1999

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• David Shapiro, Jasper Johns Drawings, 1954-1984, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1984)
• Nan Rosenthal and Ruth E. Fine, The Drawings of Jasper Johns, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1990), p. 250, under cat. no. 77
• Celebration of Art: A Half Century of the Fundación Juan March, exh. cat., Fundación Juan March (Madrid, 2005), pp. 124-125, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

• The Drawings of Jasper Johns from the Collection of Toiny Castelli, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 01/01/1987 - 02/15/1988; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 02/16/1988 - 03/20/1988
• Colección Leo Castelli, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 10/07/1988 - 01/08/1989
• Geometries of Color: American Post-Painterly Abstraction, STUX Gallery, New York, 01/30/1991 - 03/09/1991
• Celebracíon del arte. Medio siglo en la Fundación Juan March [Celebration of Art: A Half Century of the Fundación Juan March], Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 10/07/2005 - 01/15/2006

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