Savarin
Jasper Johns
1977
- Medium
- Color lithograph from seventeen plates on off-white handmade Twinrocker paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 97.7 × 71.6 cm (38 1/2 × 28 1/4 in.); Sheet: 114.3 × 88.9 cm (45 × 35 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
The Savarin can, which may be interpreted as a surrogate for Johns, debuted in his work as a painted bronze sculpture in 1960. This print was commissioned as the signature image for the artist’s 1977 retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
