Jasper Johns

Racing Thoughts

1983

A reproduction of Mona Lisa, two ceramic vases, stenciled letters, and a photo of a white man, collaged on two panels.
A reproduction of Mona Lisa, two ceramic vases, stenciled letters, and a photo of a white man, collaged on two panels.
Recto

On view
Floor 7

Date
1983

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Encaustic, screenprint, and wax crayon on collaged cotton and linen

Dimensions
Overall: 48 1/16 × 75 3/16 in. (122.1 × 191 cm)

Accession number
84.6

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Burroughs Wellcome Purchase Fund; Leo Castelli; the Wilfred P. and Rose J. Cohen Purchase Fund; the Julia B. Engel Purchase Fund; the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Purchase Fund; The Sondra and Charles Gilman, Jr. Foundation, Inc.; S. Sidney Kahn; The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund; the Sara Roby Foundation; and the Painting and Sculpture Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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