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Jasper JohnsVIOLA (Founding Member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Lithograph, Signed/N1972
1972
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Jasper Johns
VIOLA (Viola Farber, Founding Member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Field 162, 1972
Color lithograph on Angoumois à la Main paper with full margins and deckled edges
Signed, dated and numbered 6/70 in graphite pencil on the front, lower margin
Printed and published by Gemini, G.E.L., Los Angeles, with the blind stamps, lower right. A very good impression of this lithograph.
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Field 162
29 × 43 inches
Unframed
This lithograph is based on the encaustic on canvas with collage Portrait—Viola Farber, 1961-62 by Jasper Johns in the Mrs. William Sisler Collection, New York. Johns' inspiration for the painting and lithograph was the American choreographer and dancer Viola Farber (1931-1998).
Viola Farber met Merce Cunningham at Black Mountain College in 1952 and a year later became a founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Through Cunningham and the company, Farber was connected to the New York art scene of the 1950s-60s, and notably artists Robert Rauschenberg (who in addition to his career as a solo artist, designed sets and costumes for the Cunningham Dance Company), Johns (who privately assisted Rauschenberg during the 1950s in some of his designs for the company) and Cy Twombly (Rauschenberg had romantic relationships with both Johns and Twombly).
Farber created many roles in Cunningham's works, such as Crises, Paired Rune and Nocturne. Commenting on Crises which premiered in 1960, around the same time Johns made Portrait--Viola Farber, Cunningham noted that it was, "An adventure in togetherness . . . I decided to allow for the dancers contacting each other, not only through holding or being held, but also by outside means. I used elastic bands around a wrist, an arm, a waist or a leg. By one dancer inserting a hand under the band on another they were attached but also at the same instant free." Cunningham wore a wide elastic band around his waist and a smaller one on his wrist which the other dancers would attach themselves to him at different times during the performance. Johns referenced the elastic band in the lithograph, which holds together the fork and spoon at the right. In 1965, Farber left Cunningham's dance company and in 1968, established her own company. Field 162.
- Creator:Jasper Johns (1930, American)
- Creation Year:1972
- Dimensions:Height: 29 in (73.66 cm)Width: 43 in (109.22 cm)
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- Condition:A very good impression of this scarce 1970s lithgraph.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745216174502
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker born on May 15, 1930. He eventually became one of America's best known post–Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists.
Johns's name is most often associated with pictorial images of flags and numbers and Pop art subjects that he depicted in Minimalist style with an emphasis on linearity, repetition and symmetry. He completed his first flag painting in 1955, alphabet subjects in 1956, sculpture in 1958 and lithographs in 1960.
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