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JASPER JOHNS USA b.1930 Gouache on Paper Flags

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JASPER JOHNS USA b.1930  Gouache on Paper Flags
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Gouache on paper, framed. Featuring American National flag pattern artwork. Signed and attr. Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930), on the lower right corner. 23.5 x 18.5 cm (9.3 x 7.3 in.). Jasper Johns is an iconic American artist who came to define the period between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. In Flag (1954 - 1955), perhaps his most famous work—a collage of paper, encaustic oil, and fabric—Johns makes a formal abstraction from the American stars and stripes while also muting its power. “I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life,” the artist mused. “The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.” Born on May 15, 1930 in Augusta, GA, Johns left his course of study at the University of South Carolina after one year and moved to New York. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate