Jim Dine
Picabia II (Forgot), 1971
Lithograph
54.25" x 37" image and sheet
Edition: AP
Courtesy of Jeremy, Matthew and Nick Dine
Suggested value: $7,500
The piece Picabia II (Forgot), 1971 has been generously donated for the Printshop Benefit from the personal collection of Jeremy, Matthew and Nick Dine. The piece with Dine's iconic heart image is part of a time when the artist was focusing on creating works that use everyday objects as surrogates for the body, and an interest in evoking or naming things through the written or spoken word in conjunction with their visual equivalents.
Dine was born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at the University of Cincinnati and at the Boston School of Fine and Applied Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to New York in 1959, and staged his first "Happenings" with Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow at the Judson Gallery, New York. He had his first solo exhibition at the Reuben Gallery, New York. Dine was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1964, Venice, Italy, and at Documenta 4 in Kassel, Germany, in 1968. Museum collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; National Gallery, Washington DC; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angles County Museum; Art Museum, Princeton University; Fogg Art Museum; Cincinnati Art Museum; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Tate Gallery, London, UK. Jim Dine has had a prolific printmaking career that was celebrated with a major retrospective at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts in 2002.