Ode to Jasper Johns, Pair of Rusty c. 1950s Flat Top Ballantine Beer Cans low relief carving 13 7/8” t x 9”

13 7/8” t x 9” l x 11/16” thick and in very good condition

giving it a sense of kinship with my favorite root head decoys

all the more so for missing an ear on one side of it

more or less pristine condition

Ode to Jasper Johns, Pair of Rusty c. 1950s Flat Top Ballantine Beer Cans low relief carving 13 7/8” t x 9”Sold: set A I found a handful of old Ballantine beer cans a few years ago, which I bought in homage to Jasper Johns, who made them icons of art history through his Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), 1960. As the story goes, Bill de Kooning told Johns "you could give that son of a bitch two beer cans and he could sell them," referring to Leo Castelli, to which Johns responded, "what a wonderful idea for a sculpture. Of course there is much more to the story