Numbers
1967
- Medium
- lithograph
- Measurements
- 56.9 × 50.7 cm (image) 70.6 × 59.8 cm (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Field 33
- Edition
- printer's proof 2/2, edition of 35
- Printing/Publishing
- printed by Fred Genis and Zigmunds Priede at Universal Limited Art Editions, New York
- Accession Number
- P140-1984
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Henry and Dinah Krongold, Founder Benefactors, 1984
© Jasper Johns/VAGA, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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It was after a dream in 1954 that Jasper Johns first painted an image of the American flag. This inspired a series of emblematic images such as targets, numbers and alphabets. Johns used such recognisable symbols because they could almost be treated as abstract designs, allowing him to concentrate on mark making and the formal compositional aspects of his work. Johns and partner Robert Rauschenberg were credited with reintroducing figurative subject matter into painting and inspiring the transition of Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art
- Subjects (specific)
- black (colour) brush strokes dark (colour attribute) grids (layout features) numbers paint layers repetition (artistic concept)