About This Artwork

Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)
printed by Bill Goldston and James V. Smith
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)

Cup 2 Picasso, 1972-73

Color lithograph from three plates on glass paper
278 x 308 mm (image); 490 x 310 mm (sheet)
U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; restricted gift of supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund, 1983.562

Sparks 113 artist's proof; Field 168

This image, as well as a companion print Cups 4 Picasso, is based on Marcel Duchamp's 1958 collage Self-Portrait in Profile. Johns revisited this idea of mirroring a silhouette to make a second image in several works that he made during the last decade, including Untitled (1992).