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lower left in graphite: Working Proof 3 (Ink, Pencil, Crayon Additions); lower right in graphite: JJ '71; upper center in red ink: Redo; upper right in graphite: Print a Small / Edition in Black / Then Redo / Ruler Is / In Wrong Place / Too Low in Edge; center right margin in red ink (crossed out): Get / Angle / Of Ruler / Beyond / Edge; center right margin in black ink: The Position / Should Be / Such That / The Edge of Ruler / Is on Same / Plane as Edge / Of Canvas / (But — Perspective); lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 64 / JJ71-422 / Rives 5R1738

Marks and Labels

embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: Gemini G.E.L. / Los Angeles, Calif.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Johns, Jasper

Bibliography

1966
Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 359.
1978
Field, Richard S. Jasper Johns: Prints 1970-1977. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1978, no. 147.
1994
Field, Richard S. The Prints of Jasper Johns, 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonné. West Islip, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1994, no. 102.
2011
Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 26.45. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

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