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Jasper Johns
VIOLA (Founding Member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Lithograph, Signed/N

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)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    A very good impression of this scarce 1970s lithgraph.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745216174502

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