Modern Design 
1 October 2000
Modern Design 
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Ray Johnson

A Two-Year-Old Girl Choked to Death Today on an Easter Egg from the S.M.S. Portf

USA, 1968
duotone on coated paper 6½ h × 10¾ w in (17 × 27 cm)
estimate: $400–600
result: $311
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Three duotones printed on a single sheet of chrome-coated paper by the American correspondence and mail artist. A wonderful example of Johnson's sometimes morbid humor. Since his death, Johnson has been the subject of numerous exhibitions including a recent retrospective at the Whitney. From the edition of approximately 2000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press; this example is one of the 100 signed works. Signed in ink on front.

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