Jasper Johns

Exhibited by David Tunick, Inc.

Material Charcoal and graphite pencil on sketchbook paper

Dimensions 16 × 12 in

Place of Creation New York, USA

Price Available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

The first depiction in all of Johns' oeuvre of the numbers enumerated 0 to 9.

Provenance

Gift of the artist; 1958 to
Donna McCary Horie, New York;
Sotheby’s New York, Contemporary Art, Part II, May 7, 1997, lot 304 (as “1 through 9”);
William Florh, Malibu, California;
Sondra Mayer Fine Art, Great Neck, New York (early 2000)
Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York (early 2000);
C&M Art, New York (February 2000);
Togo Fine Art, Tokyo (April 2000);
Kaigado Art Gallery, Tokyo (April 2000);
Collection of Akio Morita Family, Tokyo (May 2000);
Private collection, Tokyo; 2006 to
Togo Fine Art, Tokyo;
Private Collection, Tokyo; May 2ooo8 to
Gagosian Gallery, New York; June 2009 to
Private collection, U.S.A.

Literature

Bernstein, Roberta and Carter E. Foster, Jasper Johns: Numbers, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003, listed p. 94.

Basualdo, Carlos and Scott Rothkopf, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2021, No. 36, Col. Illus. p. 85.