The Aquatint Wizard Of Sharon

two Flags on Orange. Flag on Oranges. Examples of Flag on Orange, 1998, etching and aquatint, 27 x 20 in or so, ed. 2/27 [l] went to Agnes Gund, and ed. 13/27 [r] to MoMA Print people are just like, duh, but I love how aquatint reproduces the effects of paint so closely. And it only really occurs to me when looking at two of the same print. Like the two examples of Jasper Johns’s Flag on Orange (1998), the first edition he put out from his new Low Road Studio press, from Aggie Gund [left] and MoMA [right]. It’s the little similarities I’m talking about, like, the darker orange part above the flag, and the pooling edges of the stars and stripes. That liquid behavior gets captured on the plate somehow, no doubt some kind of upstate Connecticut intaglio sorcery. Of course Aggie got ed. 2/27: Lot 2, 23 Nov 2026: Jasper Johns, Flag on Orange, 1998, est. USD 60-80,000 [christies]

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