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Cincinnati II

Jim Dine

Petersburg Press United States

Artwork details

Artist

Jim Dine

Title

Cincinnati II

Description

Lithograph on paper. Signed by the artist and numbered AP lower right in white pencil.

This large-scale black and white, text-based abstract composition is packed with names from Jim Dine’s circle of friends, family, acquaintances and others. Named after the artist’s hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio, this lithograph is based on Name Painting, 1968 – 1969, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Dine wrote in charcoal the names of everyone he could think of with whom he had any kind of relationship in the first 28 years of his life. Produced in his studio at Chester Square in London, the 15-foot-wide canvas is filled with names – including rubbed out names of those the artist would prefer to forget. Provoking a dialogue between words and imagery, Dine composed this work like he wrote poetry: on paper pinned to the wall.

A copy of this print is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Two creases on left edge of sheet as photographed, condition otherwise good.

Date

1969

Medium

Colour Lithograph

Edition

Signature

Signed

Sheet

28 x 40.5 inches

Status

Sold

The Artist

Jim Dine

Jim Dine: Printmaker, Painter and Poet of the Everyday Object

Jim Dine (born 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio) is one of the most prolific and technically adventurous printmakers of the past sixty years. He first emerged in New York’s late-1950s art scene alongside the Happenings and Pop art movements, but he has always resisted the Pop label. His work is intensely personal, autobiographical and hand-made. Jim Dine prints put that sensibility on paper: expressive, gestural and rooted in the physical act of drawing and cutting.