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Jim Dine – Olympic Robe

Jim Dine, Olympic Robe is an original lithograph made in 1988.  It is signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 300.

Often associated with the Pop art movement, Jim Dine features everyday objects and imagery in his paintings, drawings, and prints. However, unlike many Pop artists, he focuses on the autobiographical and emotive connotations of his motifs. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he worked with Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow to organize proto-performance art events known as Happenings. Soon after, drawing on childhood memories of his father’s Cincinnati hardware store, Dine began making paintings incorporating real objects like hammers, C-clamps, and paintbrushes. For Dine, these objects functioned “as a vocabulary of feelings.”

This work illustrates the enduring importance of the bathrobe motif in Dine’s work. He first adopted this humble but self-assured motif in 1964 as a metaphor for his self-portrait, after coming across an image of a man’s dressing gown in a newspaper advertisement. Dine has used the motif in over seventy printed works.

Title

Olympic Robe

Medium

Lithograph

Year

1988

Edition

300

Signature

Signed, dated, numbered

Size 35 x 27 (in)
89 x 69 (cm)
Price SOLD
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Jim Dine, Olympic Robe is an original lithograph made in 1988.  It is signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 300.

Often associated with the Pop art movement, Jim Dine features everyday objects and imagery in his paintings, drawings, and prints. However, unlike many Pop artists, he focuses on the autobiographical and emotive connotations of his motifs. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he worked with Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow to organize proto-performance art events known as Happenings. Soon after, drawing on childhood memories of his father’s Cincinnati hardware store, Dine began making paintings incorporating real objects like hammers, C-clamps, and paintbrushes. For Dine, these objects functioned “as a vocabulary of feelings.”

This work illustrates the enduring importance of the bathrobe motif in Dine’s work. He first adopted this humble but self-assured motif in 1964 as a metaphor for his self-portrait, after coming across an image of a man’s dressing gown in a newspaper advertisement. Dine has used the motif in over seventy printed works.

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Title

Olympic Robe

Medium

Lithograph

Year

1988

Edition

300

Signature

Signed, dated, numbered

Size 35 x 27 (in)
89 x 69 (cm)
Price SOLD