JIM DINE "FOOT" WATERCOLOR, 1978
Jim Dine (b. 1935) was one of the key artists that shaped American Pop art in the 1960s. Like Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, Dine appropriated quintessential American images in his work, experimenting with modes of reproduction and representation.
Dine's work was included in many pivotal early and established Pop Art exhibitions, including "New Paintings of Common Objects" at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), a show curated by Walter Hopps that would later be cited as the first institutional survey of American Pop Art. However, during its heyday, Dine remained on the periphery of the Pop Art movement. Instead, he spent most of his energy pioneering the Neo-Dada “Happenings” movement alongside Claes Oldenburg and John Cage.
Jim Dine is an exacting observer. He is enthralled not only by how something looks, but also by how it exists, functions, and interacts with itself and the world around it. In this work, Dine offers viewers a soft, emphatic foot, depicted with care and precision. Using a pencil and watercolour, he applies, erases, smudges, scrapes, and wipes his markmaking, these after-effects and alterations just as much weight as the original applications. This active observing offers viewers dimensionality and candidness, and is a result of Dine's dedication to production. As a whole, his work ascribes warmth and curiosity to everyday objects--or in this case, appendages.
Over the succeeding decades, Dine has become most well-known for his painting and printmaking of objects like bathrobes, neckties, hearts, and tools, reducing them to their essence or transforming them into abstract allusions. Dine's work can be found in important public collections around the world. The Musée des Beaux Arts de Montreal and MoMA have particularly important collections of his work.
Questions about this piece? Contact us or call +1.416.704.1720.
Visit our Toronto gallery on Thursdays or by appointment.
"Foot"
USA, 1978
Signed and dated by artist, lower centre
Pencil and watercolor on paper
14"H 14"W (work)
23.5"H 23.5"W (framed)
Very good condition
Provenance:
B.C. Holland Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Private Collection Chicago, Illinois
Original: $6,000.00
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JIM DINE "FOOT" WATERCOLOR, 1978
Jim Dine (b. 1935) was one of the key artists that shaped American Pop art in the 1960s. Like Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, Dine appropriated quintessential American images in his work, experimenting with modes of reproduction and representation.
Dine's work was included in many pivotal early and established Pop Art exhibitions, including "New Paintings of Common Objects" at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), a show curated by Walter Hopps that would later be cited as the first institutional survey of American Pop Art. However, during its heyday, Dine remained on the periphery of the Pop Art movement. Instead, he spent most of his energy pioneering the Neo-Dada “Happenings” movement alongside Claes Oldenburg and John Cage.
Jim Dine is an exacting observer. He is enthralled not only by how something looks, but also by how it exists, functions, and interacts with itself and the world around it. In this work, Dine offers viewers a soft, emphatic foot, depicted with care and precision. Using a pencil and watercolour, he applies, erases, smudges, scrapes, and wipes his markmaking, these after-effects and alterations just as much weight as the original applications. This active observing offers viewers dimensionality and candidness, and is a result of Dine's dedication to production. As a whole, his work ascribes warmth and curiosity to everyday objects--or in this case, appendages.
Over the succeeding decades, Dine has become most well-known for his painting and printmaking of objects like bathrobes, neckties, hearts, and tools, reducing them to their essence or transforming them into abstract allusions. Dine's work can be found in important public collections around the world. The Musée des Beaux Arts de Montreal and MoMA have particularly important collections of his work.
Questions about this piece? Contact us or call +1.416.704.1720.
Visit our Toronto gallery on Thursdays or by appointment.
"Foot"
USA, 1978
Signed and dated by artist, lower centre
Pencil and watercolor on paper
14"H 14"W (work)
23.5"H 23.5"W (framed)
Very good condition
Provenance:
B.C. Holland Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Private Collection Chicago, Illinois
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Jim Dine (b. 1935) was one of the key artists that shaped American Pop art in the 1960s. Like Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, Dine appropriated quintessential American images in his work, experimenting with modes of reproduction and representation.
Dine's work was included in many pivotal early and established Pop Art exhibitions, including "New Paintings of Common Objects" at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), a show curated by Walter Hopps that would later be cited as the first institutional survey of American Pop Art. However, during its heyday, Dine remained on the periphery of the Pop Art movement. Instead, he spent most of his energy pioneering the Neo-Dada “Happenings” movement alongside Claes Oldenburg and John Cage.
Jim Dine is an exacting observer. He is enthralled not only by how something looks, but also by how it exists, functions, and interacts with itself and the world around it. In this work, Dine offers viewers a soft, emphatic foot, depicted with care and precision. Using a pencil and watercolour, he applies, erases, smudges, scrapes, and wipes his markmaking, these after-effects and alterations just as much weight as the original applications. This active observing offers viewers dimensionality and candidness, and is a result of Dine's dedication to production. As a whole, his work ascribes warmth and curiosity to everyday objects--or in this case, appendages.
Over the succeeding decades, Dine has become most well-known for his painting and printmaking of objects like bathrobes, neckties, hearts, and tools, reducing them to their essence or transforming them into abstract allusions. Dine's work can be found in important public collections around the world. The Musée des Beaux Arts de Montreal and MoMA have particularly important collections of his work.
Questions about this piece? Contact us or call +1.416.704.1720.
Visit our Toronto gallery on Thursdays or by appointment.
"Foot"
USA, 1978
Signed and dated by artist, lower centre
Pencil and watercolor on paper
14"H 14"W (work)
23.5"H 23.5"W (framed)
Very good condition
Provenance:
B.C. Holland Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Private Collection Chicago, Illinois
