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Johns' Marketable Mystique; His Early Work Brings Millions, But the Artist's Vision Is Fading
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New York's Jasper Johns must pinch himself each morning just to
see if it is over yet. For more than 30 years now, he's lived the
Painter's Dream.
At Sotheby's on Thursday, his "False Start" (1959) sold for
$17.05 million, becoming the most expensive picture by a living
artist ever placed upon the block. The auction record that it
smashed-$7.04 million for "White Flag" (1955-58)-had been set the
night before. It, too, was held by Johns. So was the prior record
($4.2 million for his "Diver," 1962, which sold last May at
Christie's), and the record before that ($3.63 million for his "Out ...
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Art;THE OLD GLORIES OF JASPER JOHNS;At the National Gallery, Glimmers of Darkness
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; ...of multimillion-dollar pictures, Jasper Johns ranks high above lesser New York...is he really? "The Drawings of Jasper Johns," which goes on view tomorrow...Buehrle. Can "The Drawings of Jasper Johns" survive a test so daunting? Yes...
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Dear Johns
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; Jasper Johns Museum of Modern Art II West...figure to be an upside for Jasper Johns in this rashly timed retrospective...commerce. Eight years ago, a Johns went at auction for $17 million...call it "soft support"), Johns had nothing to gain and a...
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Rally round the flag, boys. (artist Jasper Johns)
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; A big MoMA show proves Jasper Johns is more than a bridge from abstract expressionism to pop JASPER JOHNS'S AUSTERELY ELEGANT town house...muscle in any critic to twitch. But Jasper Johns: A Retrospective (which runs through...
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Jasper Johns's True Aim; Exhibition Zeroes In on A Momentous Decade for The Painter, and Art Itself
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...The great American painter Jasper Johns is all about what you could...one else had done before. "Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting...Gallery, makes it clear that Johns has an artistic mind up there...and Cezanne its Darwin, then Johns is, if not Einstein (that...Coming out of ...
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JASPER JOHNS, PERSONALLY SPEAKING;The Artist at 60: Turning Inward in His Work, Breaking the Silence on His Life
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...across its elegant little courtyard, Jasper Johns, arguably America's preeminent living...South, you're out-of-doors," says Johns, who was most recently burnished...house at Stony Point on the Hudson-Johns has one objective. "I work on everything...
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A game of hide and seek Jasper Johns, once an iconoclast and now a grand old man of American art, walks a tightrope between self- revelation and self-concealment, writes Andrew Graham-Dixon, who visits a new show of his work
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...has been almost 50 years since Jasper Johns changed the course of art with...him. "Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns Since 1983", the exhibition of...Independence. It turned out that Jasper Johns - whose painted flags staked his...
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Gallery exhibit spotlights the artistic genius of Jasper Johns
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail
; ...The great American painter Jasper Johns had what you could call pictorial...else had done before. "Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-19...Gallery, makes it clear that Johns has an artistic mind up there...and Cezanne its Darwin, then Johns is, if not Einstein (that ...
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An artist's vision is right on target; An exhibition of Jasper Johns's work at the National Gallery in Washington goes beyond the bold simplicity of his popular target and flag imagery.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...contemporary American painter Jasper Johns appropriated the instantly...hitting the mark - abound in Johns's work. In paintings in various...almost nontargets. No doubt Johns was onto something when he...art. Many still identify Johns with that motif, which is...through April 29, proves ...
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"Jasper Johns: Gray"
Magazine article from: Artforum
; "Jasper Johns: Gray" ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO JASPER JOHNS has been the subject of so many career surveys, narrowly...the show's reality obviated such ungenerous concerns: "Jasper Johns: Gray" operates as a kind of shadow retrospective, illuminating...
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Edinburgh visual art: Whose great art is this? Oh, it's my own Jasper Johns Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art EDINBURGH Fred Tomaselli Fruitmarket Gallery EDINBURGH
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; At first glance, the pairing of Jasper Johns with Fred Tomaselli at this year...unknowable as Johns in his prime. The Jasper Johns of the mid-1950s to 1970s was a...Blake. Once, it might have been of Jasper Johns I'd have thought of; but not any...
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