Foirades / Fizzles, 1976

Title

Foirades / Fizzles

Artist

• Jasper Johns

Author

• Samuel Beckett

Printer

• Atelier Crommelynck (Paris)

Publisher

• Petersburg Press Ltd. (London)

Serial Number / Edition

154 / 250 (+ 30 a.p. + 20 h.c.)

Period Produced

• 20th century

Object Type

• art print

Physical Description

Book with texts by Samuel Beckett and 33 intaglio prints (here: sugar-lift technique worked with scraper and flour of emery) on wove paper

Material

• vellum paper
• book

Technique

• etching
• aquatint
• dry point
• copperplate engraving
• heliogravure
• vernis mou

Geographic Reference

• North American

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert im Druckvermerk (mit Bleistift): Samuel Beckett; daneben: J Johns

Captions Added Later

Rücken der Leinenkassette mit dem Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• mit dem Monogramm von Samuel Beckett unten links: SB; und der Signatur von Jasper Johns unten rechts: J. Johns

Work Catalogues

• Field 173

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

Acquisition

Acquired in 2002 with funds from the Heinz und Gisela Friederichs Stiftung

Genre

• abstraction

Primary

• 0 Abstract, Non-representational Art

Secondary

• 49D32 line (~ planimetry, geometry)
• 22C4(PURPLE) colours, pigments, and paints: purple
• 22C4(GREEN) colours, pigments, and paints: green
• 22C4(YELLOW) colours, pigments, and paints: yellow
• 41A778 container of paper, cardboard: bag, carton
• 49M3 printed matter