The celebrated Jasper Johns is not exactly a paint-by-the-numbers artist, but he has painted numbers–completing a series of paintings, lithographs and drawings using numbers as subjects. The ...

Interested in selling with artnet Auctions? Submit VIEW IMAGES (8) Jasper Johns American, b. 1930 Figure 3 (from Color Numeral Series), 1969 ...

Letters and numbers were less emotive. Johns often set them in grids, depriving them of their usual function and reinventing them as formats for movements of paint, color, surface quality, or line.

Image: 22.88 x 19.63 in. (58.12 x 49.86 cm.) This artwork is located at artnet’s headquarters in New York. Message the specialist to schedule a private viewing. Jasper Johns, born in 1930, is an ...

So far, his numbers-oeuvre includes 66 paintings and sculptures, 63 drawings and 25 series and individual prints. “Jasper Johns: Numbers” assembles 31 examples in a wide array of mediums.

Renowned for his paintings of the American flag, Johns, now 91, is one of the world’s most influential living artists. But he is famously reluctant to speak about his work.

How Jasper Johns drew from the work of Edvard Munch to push his own art forward. By Lee Rosenbaum Dec. 21, 2016 2:41 pm ET Share ...