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Emma Bovary

Jim Dine

Petersburg Press United States

Artwork details

Artist

Jim Dine

Title

Emma Bovary

Description

Lithograph. Signed by the artist, dated 1972, and annotated Trial Proof lower center in pencil. This work is unique. This trial proof was pinned up by the artist leaving a single pinhole on upper and lower left corners, and several pinholes on upper and lower right corners, as photographed.

This unique Jim Dine print features the artist's iconic heart motif against a cosmic field of crimson, grey, black, pink, yellow, and purple. Spatters of ink and organic shapes form a soft galaxy behind Dine's handwritten text "Emma Bovary." Emma Bovary was the eponymous heroine of Gustave Flaubert's first novel.

Date

1972

Medium

Colour Lithograph

Edition

Unique

Signature

Signed

Sheet

30 x 40 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.