
Offset lithograph in colours.
Signed and numbered on the front.
'Flag (Moratorium)' by Jasper Johns is an offset print from 1969, measuring 52 × 72 cm. The American flag's standard red, white and blue is replaced here with orange and green — the latter rendered in a dense camouflage pattern across both the stripes and the field behind the stars. The canton is filled with an amber-orange ground carrying black five-pointed stars, while the stripes alternate between dark olive and a brushy, mottled green. The title locates the work precisely: the Vietnam Moratorium of October 1969, the largest single-day anti-war protest in American history, for which Johns made this print as a fundraising edition. The colour substitution is not abstract play but political shorthand — orange for Agent Orange, green for jungle and military fatigues — channelling Johns's long engagement with the flag motif, first established with his 1954–55 encaustic 'Flag', into direct anti-war statement.
Flag (Moratorium), 1969
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Offset lithograph in colours.
Signed and numbered on the front.
'Flag (Moratorium)' by Jasper Johns is an offset print from 1969, measuring 52 × 72 cm. The American flag's standard red, white and blue is replaced here with orange and green — the latter rendered in a dense camouflage pattern across both the stripes and the field behind the stars. The canton is filled with an amber-orange ground carrying black five-pointed stars, while the stripes alternate between dark olive and a brushy, mottled green. The title locates the work precisely: the Vietnam Moratorium of October 1969, the largest single-day anti-war protest in American history, for which Johns made this print as a fundraising edition. The colour substitution is not abstract play but political shorthand — orange for Agent Orange, green for jungle and military fatigues — channelling Johns's long engagement with the flag motif, first established with his 1954–55 encaustic 'Flag', into direct anti-war statement.
Jasper Johns
Untitled (from Reality and Paradoxes), 1973
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Jasper Johns
Flag (Moratorium), 1969
52 x 72 cm





































