Jasper Johns, Figure 6

signed and dated "J. Johns 1964-72" on the reverse; further signed and dated "J. Johns 64-72" on the stretcher
Sculp-metal and collage on canvas
10 x 7 3/4 in. (25.4 x 19.7 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1972.

Provenance:
Owen Lee, Edisto Beach (gifted by the artist in August 1973)
Private Collection, Paris (acquired in October 1997)
Christie’s, New York, May 17, 2007, lot 122
Attanasio Family Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby’s, New York, November 11, 2014, lot 57
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited:
Columbia, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Jasper Johns, April 30 - August 6, 1989

This work has been requested for inclusion in the artist’s forthcoming retrospective Jasper Johns organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York to be held from October 2020 - February 2021.

Literature:
Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture, vol. 3, New York, 2016, no. P184, p. 16 (illustrated, p. 17)

Property of a Private Collector