Untitled, Second State (Ruler and Fork) [trial proof], 1969

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint in black on wove paper [trial proof]

Dimensions

plate: 74.3 × 49.53 cm (29 1/4 × 19 1/2 in.)

sheet: 107.63 × 75.88 cm (42 3/8 × 29 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund and Special Friends of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

ULAE, no. 079 [trial proof]

Accession Number

2006.136.75

Artists / Makers

Jasper Johns (artist) American, born 1930

Donn Steward (printer) American, born Canada, 1921 - 1985

Universal Limited Art Editions (publisher)

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Inscription

lower right, below plate mark, in graphite: J Johns 1969; lower left, below plate mark, in graphite: TRIAL PROOF 1/2; lower left, verso, in graphite: IV State [in unknown hand]; lower right, verso, in graphite: French/ 2 [in unknown hand]; upper right, verso, in graphite: IV State [in unknown hand]

Marks and Labels

blind stamp: [chop of Universal Limited Art Editions]

Provenance

the artist, Sharon, Connecticut; acquired 2006 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Johns, Jasper

Bibliography

1994: Field, Richard S. The Prints of Jasper Johns, 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonné. West Islip, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1994, no. 79.