From Juan Gris
Jasper Johns
American, born 1930
2000
An ink drawing on transparentized paper in which Jasper Johns uses flowing, stainlike washes and a cutout silhouette to reinterpret and pay tribute to Juan Gris’s Cubist forms.
A luminous, marbleized central mass is edged by darker, veinlike pools of ink whose translucency and layered contours make the flat sheet read like a fragile, sculptural object.
By invoking Juan Gris, Johns links Cubist collage and modernist geometry to chance-driven, process-based drawing, expanding how appropriation and material effects can question authorship and the possibilities of drawing.
Medium
Ink on transparentized paper
Dimensions
27 5/8 x 21 5/8" (70.2 x 54.9 cm)
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Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
1979.2005
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