Deaccession of a Jasper Johns.

Written By Dane Jensen

It was wonderful to have found a new home for this seminal print from Jasper Johns, Two Maps II (1966). It looked amazing on the booth with David Zwirner Gallery during the exceptionally well-attended IFDPA Print and Works on Paper fair here in New York.

Johns employed the use of a common map found in American classrooms. The chalk-like outline and the twinned image, however, carries a ghostly feel to it—underpinning questions about what we are taught versus what know—during a time of political upheaval in the US.

Other versions of Two Maps images are in the collection of the MOMA, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; the RISD Museum, Providence; the British Museum, London; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Jasper Jones
Two Maps II, 1966
Lithograph on white Japan paper laid down on Fabriano paper
33 x 26 1/2 inches

Sold by La Finca Collection Strategies in partnership with Zwirner Gallery, New York on behalf of a San Francisco collection.

Dane Jensen