Foirades/Fizzles (special portfolio edition)

Artist Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)

Date1975-1976

DimensionsOverall: 26 x 19 11/16 in. (660 x 500mm)

Medium33 prints: 26 lift-ground aquatints (most with etching, screen-printing, and/or photogravure), 5 etchings, 1 soft-ground etching, and 1 aquatint [each includes variations on traditional techniques] see list

ClassificationPrints

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

2000.28A-GG

Not on View

DescriptionOne of six, special portfolio editions of 33 etchings by Jasper Johns, proofed and printed together with Aldo Crommelynck at the Atelier Crommelynck in Paris between 1975 and 1976, during the making of the livre de luxe: Foirades/Fizzles (edited by Vera Lindsay, published by Petersburg Press, London, 1976). 33 loose leaves with tissue guards, laid in cloth portfolio case. A complete list of individual plates attached.

Published Referencescf.Foirades = Fizzles New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977 cf.Foirades/Fizzles, Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns Los Angeles, Wight Art Gallery, 1987 cf.Joan Rothfuss, "Foirades/Fizzles: Jasper Johns's Ambiguous Object," The BurlinExhibition HistoryTMA: Jasper Johns, Master Printmaker. Aug 15-Nov11, 2001 (all images)Comparative ReferencesSee also Foirades = Fizzles New York, WMAA, 1977 See also Foirades/Fizzles, Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns Los Angeles, WAG, 1987 See also Joan Rothfuss, "Foirades/Fizzles: Jasper Johns's Ambiguous Object," The Burlington Magazine v. 135 (Apr. 1993) p. 269-75. See also Donna Stein, "A Master's Graphic Explorations," Artweek v. 18 (Nov. 14 '87) p. 1. See also Barbara Knowles Debs, "On the permanence of change: Jasper Johns at the Modern," The Print Collector's Newsletter v. 17 (Sept./Oct. '86) p. 117-23. See also Stephen Forsling, "Fizzles, Savage Breeze, Kitty Hawk and a Message from Degas," Art News v. 79 (Sept. 1980) p.124+. See also Richard Field, Jasper Johns: Prints 1970-1977 Middletown, Conn., 1978 See also Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns: A Retrospective New York, 1996 See also David Anfam, "Jasper Johns," Print Quarterly v, no.4 (1998) p. 429-31 See also John Loring, "American Prints from Fuses to Fizzles," Art in America v.65, no.1 (Jan/Feb. 1977) p.31-34. See also Roberta Bernstein "Johns & Becket: Foirades/Fizzles," Print Collectors Newsletter v. 7, no.5 (Nov./Dec. 1976) p.141-45. See also Carol Shloss, "Foirades Fizzles: Variations on a Past Image," Journal of Modern Literature 12: 1 (1985) p.153-68. See also Jessica Prinz, "Foirades-Fizzles," Contemporary Literature 21: 3 (1980) p. 480-510.