Jasper Johns ‘0 through 9’ | Christie's

Mary and John Pappajohn sought out the renegade and the bold, choosing pieces in which artists push at the boundaries of art.
Actively seeking art that challenged them- the couple shaped a collection far ahead of its time. From Jasper Johns’ now iconic 1961 painting ‘0 through 9’ where the artist used layering to challenge our ways of looking to Bruce Nauman’s Hanged Man, a playful neon the artist fashioned into a provocative, sexually charged image during the height of the AIDS crisis, the collection breaks down the demands of beauty, realism, and subject matter that had constrained artists for centuries.
Discover the groundbreaking Property from the Collection of Mary & John Pappajohn, on view on 4-14 May at our Rockefeller Center galleries.

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Well said and truly fabulous!] but art nowadays needs judgement more than ever.