20. Hatching Pattern, 1976 Hachure Motif 11 9/16 x 18 5/16 in. Four-color aquatint (lift-ground) and drypoint in orange, green, violet, and white from four copper plates Front end leaf for Foirades/Fizzles, the artist book (livre d'artiste ) published in 1976 as a collaboration between Jasper Johns and poet/playwright Samuel Beckett. Johns based his designs on imagery he had already initiated in the painting Untitled, 1972, while Beckett selected five Fizzles (short stories), some of which had already been published in French and translated by Beckett in English.