The Critic Smiles

1966

Jasper Johns

Artist, American, born 1930

Universal Limited Art Editions

Publisher

Ben Burns

Printer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph (stone) in black and hand-colored in silver, gold, and aluminum on handmade English Chatam paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 63.82 × 51.12 cm (25 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1976.56.72

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    ULAE, no. 025

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.; acquired 1976 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • "Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme" The Phillips Collection, Washington (Jun - Sep 2012)

Bibliography

1970

  • Field, Richard S. Jasper Johns: Prints 1960-1970. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970, no.

1994

  • Field, Richard S. The Prints of Jasper Johns, 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonné. West Islip, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1994, no. 25.

Inscriptions

lower left, in colored pencil: The Critic Smiles / 27/40 / J Johns / 1966

Markings

blind stamp: [chop of Universal Limited Art Editions]

Wikidata ID

Q65571633

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