Jasper Johns
Cicada

Cicada

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Cicada
Cicada
ArtistAmerican, born 1930
Print studioLos Angeles
PublisherLos Angeles
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cicada
Date1981
Published inLos Angeles, California, United States
Printed inLos Angeles, California, United States
MediumLithograph in colors, artist's proof 3/11
DimensionsSheet: 35 × 25 3/4 in. (88.9 × 65.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2005.178
Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryAcquisitions of the Last Five Years: Selections of Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Upper Brown Pavilion, July 15, 2005 - October 15, 2005.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil, lower left corner: "AP 3/11"

Marked in pencil, verso lower left: "JJ79-848"
Marked in pencil, lower right below image: "J Johns 81"
Stamped on verso lower left: "Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles / STONY JOHNS, INC. "

Gemini impressed mark in the lower right corner
Catalogue raisonnéULAE 219

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