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Artist

Title

Two Florida Bathrobes

Description

Celebrated artist Jim Dine (b. 1935) is a consummate draughtsman and printmaker, with a command of historic and innovative techniques and a love of working the printing plate. He frequently mixes media, such as intaglio and woodcut, to obtain a variety of effects of line, color, texture and surface in one work.

Originally a self-portrait icon, over time Jim Dine’s bathrobe has taken on more universal meanings. The Woodcut Bathrobe is one of several prints Dine completed at Graphicstudio with this signature image. Black and White Bathrobe, completed during the same working session and prior to this print, employs the same lithographic drawing printed in white on a solidly printed black field. Using a tracing from this lithograph, Dine made a pattern for the individually cut plywood sections that he used for the color panels of The Woodcut Bathrobe. Dine also combines processes in the other bathrobe prints created here at Graphicstudio, such as Two Florida Bathrobes.

Jim Dine
Two Florida Bathrobes
1987
15-run lithograph/etching
31-3/4 x 46-3/8 inches

Edition: 70

Date

1987

Medium

Etching

Edition

Signature

Signed

Sheet

31.75 x 46.5 inches

Status

Available

Price

Price on request

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.