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Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray’s Hand from “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Jim Dine

Petersburg Press United States

Artwork details

Artist

Jim Dine

Title

Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray's Hand from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Description

Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray’s Hand from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” signed proof aside from Edition A (edition 200) and Edition C (edition 100)

Etching by Jim Dine from one of his most important artist’s books – completely designed and illustrated by Dine. Signed proof aside from Edition B (edition 200) and Edition C (edition 100). Signed by the artist lower right in pencil.

This proof depicts a hand adorned with jeweled rings, printed in teal. Underneath the hand is written “Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray’s Hand”. In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the servants are able to identify Gray’s corpse by the elaborate rings on its hand.

Dine was working on the sets and costumes for a stage version of Oscar Wilde’s famed novel, and when the play did not come to fruition, Petersburg Press proposed that he make a book using his annotated typescript of the play. Dine then drew 12 lithographs illustrating his costume and set designs which are included in the book and an additional 4 etchings, separate from the book, which are included loose in Editions A and C. Dine would go on to be a frequent Petersburg Press collaborator

Date

1968

Medium

Color Etching and Aquatint

Edition

Signed proof aside from Edition B (edition 200) and Edition C (edition 100).

Signature

Signed

Catalogue Raisonne

Jim Dine: Complete Graphics with essay by John Russell, Galerie Mikro Berlin| Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover| Petersburg Press London 1970, 47g

Image

15.5 x 9.25 inches

Sheet

17.5 x 12 inches

Price

$1,200.00

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.