Artwork details

Artist

Title

The Mead of Poetry #1 (huge framed hand signed woodcut)

Description

Chine colle woodcut in black on cold pressed Saunders Waterford paper. Hand signed and dated lower left by Jim Dine. Hand numbered 6/34 lower left. Sheet size: 59 x 40 inches. Image size: 47.8 x 33.7 inches. Frame size: 64 x 45 inches. Published by Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa. Catalogue Raisonné: Carpenter 2002, no. 24.

Artwork is in overall excellent condition. Due to its size, there are some handling marks and minor creases in the margins. Presents well framed. Please see all pics for more details. Certificate of Authenticity included.

About the Artist: Jim Dine is an American artist and poet known for his contributions to the formation of both Performance Art and Pop Art. Employing motifs which include Pinocchio, hearts, bathrobes, and tools, Dine produces colorful paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures. “I grew up with tools. I came from a family of people who sold tools, and I’ve always been enchanted by these objects made by anonymous hands,” Dine has said. Born on June 16, 1935 in Cincinnati, OH, he studied poetry at the University of Cincinnati before attending the University of Ohio where he received his BFA in 1957. After moving to New York in 1958, Dine became part of a milieu of artists which included Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg, with whom he began to stage performances at sites in the city that later became known as “Happenings.” By the early 1960s, he had switched his focus towards painting, drawing on his interest in popular imagery and commercial objects. Though he was shown alongside Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Dine never considered himself a member of the Pop Art movement. The artist currently lives and works between New York, NY and Walla Walla, WA. His works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others.

Date

1988

Medium

Woodcut

Edition

Signature

Signed

Image

47.8 x 33.7 inches

Sheet

59 x 40 inches

Status

Available

Price

$4,125.00

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.