The subject of Savarin dates to 1960, the year Jasper Johns made a life-size painted bronzed sculpture based on a Savarin coffee can that he used to hold paintbrushes in in his studio. He returned to the image in 1977, creating a lithograph of the Savarin can for a poster announcing a retrospective of his work at the Whitney Museum.

Lithograph, on Richard de Bas paper, 1978, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 42, published by ULAE, West Islip, New York, with their blind stamp, 65.7 x 50.2 cm. (26 x 19.8 in.)