Jasper Johns

Painting with Two Balls
1971

A modern art print featuring three horizontal blocks of color—magenta on top, yellow in the middle, and blue at the bottom—with two small red circles just below the top edge of the yellow block. The phrase "painting with two balls" is written in cursive at the bottom left, with "j. johns" in print at the bottom right.
A modern art print featuring three horizontal blocks of color—magenta on top, yellow in the middle, and blue at the bottom—with two small red circles just below the top edge of the yellow block. The phrase "painting with two balls" is written in cursive at the bottom left, with "j. johns" in print at the bottom right.

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Date
1971

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet (sight, irregular): 37 1/4 × 30 11/16in. (94.6 × 77.9 cm) Plate (sight, irregular): 20 1/2 × 24 1/2in. (52.1 × 62.2 cm)

Accession number
2024.136

Series
Painting with Two Balls

Edition
Proof 2/2 | Three flat screens

Publication
Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York; published by Jasper Johns

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

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

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