JASPER JOHNS/ REGRET

In June 2012, Jasper Johns encountered a photograph of the painter Lucian Freud reproduced in a Christie's auction catalogue. Inspir ed not only by the image, but by the physical qualities of the photograph itself, Johns took this motif through a succession of cros s-medium permutations. He also incorporated into his art the text of a rubber stamp he had had made several years earlier to allow h im to efficiently decline the myriad requests and invitations that come his way: Regrets/Jasper Johns.