Jasper Johns

Ocean
1996

A mixed media artwork featuring a geometric composition with overlapping triangles in various textures and colors. In the upper left, there is a blue silhouette of a person in a falling pose against a light background, and in the upper right, a sepia-toned photographic portrait of an elderly person. The piece is signed at the bottom right and labeled "Printer's Proof ¾" at the bottom left on a cream-colored border.
A mixed media artwork featuring a geometric composition with overlapping triangles in various textures and colors. In the upper left, there is a blue silhouette of a person in a falling pose against a light background, and in the upper right, a sepia-toned photographic portrait of an elderly person. The piece is signed at the bottom right and labeled "Printer's Proof ¾" at the bottom left on a cream-colored border.

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Date
1996

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photo-offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 27 3/4 × 36 11/16in. (70.5 × 93.2 cm) Image: 21 × 30 9/16in. (53.3 × 77.6 cm)

Accession number
99.41

Edition
PP 3/4 | Ed. 54

Publication
Printed by Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc.; published by Cunningham Dance Foundation

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

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

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