Jasper Johns (American, b.1930). "Moratorium (Flag)". Color offset lithograph. 1969. Estimated Price: $3,000 - $4,000

Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition unknown, c.1500 (?). White smooth wove paper. Full margins/the full sheet. Fine impression. Good to very good condition; minor creasing in the image, not visible recto.

Literature/catalogue raisonne: cf Field/ULAE Supplement 5. A very scarce poster.

The auction record for a signed impression is $3,000 at Christie's New York, 07/15/2014, lot #83. Our example, as Christie's, probably one of a special edition of the poster which Johns signed. According to Deborah Wye, Chief Curator of Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the poster "became one of the most well known images of the Vietnam period." Commissioned by the Leo Castelli Gallery on the occasion of the National Vietnam Moratorium, a nationwide coordinated protest against the war in Vietnam held on October 5th, 1969. Image copyright © Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

Overall size: 22 3/4 x 28 3/4 in. (578 x 730 mm). Image size: 19 7/8 x 25 7/8 in. (505 x 657 mm). [26570] |2000| {R100} (TL5) czzz~szzz

Pop, Modern, Contemporary Art & Photography by Stanford Auctioneers. November 7, 2015, 8:00 AM PST -Phoenix, AZ, USA