Savarin 3 (Red) [trial proof]

1978 · Print

Notice

1967–1980
Artistic adviser to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Johns had long supported the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, helping to raise funds and attention and assisting Rauschenberg with set and costume designs in the 1950s, and from 1967 to 1980 he served as its artistic adviser.
1973–1987
A farmhouse with a glass-walled studio at Stony Point
From 1973 to 1987 Johns kept a rustic 1930s farmhouse with a glass-walled studio in Stony Point, New York.
1976
The book “Foirades/Fizzles” with Samuel Beckett
At the Atelier Crommelynck in Paris, where his intaglios were printed for Petersburg Press from 1975 to 1990, Johns collaborated with Samuel Beckett on Foirades/Fizzles, a book of five text fragments by Beckett in French and English with 33 intaglios by Johns.
24 juin 1977 – 2 octobre 1977
Exhibition: Documenta 6
1980
The Whitney buys “Three Flags” for $1 million
In 1980 the Whitney Museum of American Art paid $1 million for Three Flags (1958), then the highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist.