

The painting’s unique quality lies within its individual unit that reveals subtle depth hidden behind intrinsically placed shapes in every feature utilized by Jasper John on this artwork.

Two-Ball Painting I breaks down the barrier between artistic representation and physical reality with its depiction of tangible elements such as wooden balls lodged in the painting’s borders. His works have sold for millions of dollars at sales and auctions. Jasper Johns is an American painter renowned for his association with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada art movements and pop art. It also includes several found objects attached to the painted surface such as a cast of legs, metal letters, a coat hanger, and a chair. Johns works regularly receive millions of dollars at sale and auction, including a reported 110. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related topics.

The work, which was created in 1962, was printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc. Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. Jasper Johns’ “Painting with Two Balls I” is a sixteen-foot-long color lithograph that features wooden spheres revealing the painting’s canvas panels and creating a gap in the painted surface. Over the past six decades, Jasper Johns’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have left an indelible mark on art.
