Bukowskis presents Jim Dine at Contemporary Art & Design
Jim Dine, 'Mr. Oxide'
By allowing the robe to clothe an invisible body without head, legs and arms, he found the form perfectly suited to the rectangular composition he preferred to work with. The empty bathrobe becomes an inverted portrait of an unknown person, while retaining its painterly freedom of line and colour.
Dine began his career in the late 1950s as one of the youngest of the new generation of artists seeking a way forward from Abstract Expressionism. Jim Dine collaborated with the Pace Gallery in New York from 1978 to 2016, where he first exhibited his large paintings of bathrobe motifs. He has described his painting as a process of correction in which he repeatedly reworks a painting. Colour is added, removed and revised until the final result is achieved. Although he repeats his motifs, each work is unique, whether it is a collage, painting or drawing. His works explore the relationship between texture, colour and composition, allowing both himself and the viewer to apply their own feelings and ideas to the form.
› Signed Jim Dine and dated 2009 verso. Canvas 122 x 92 cm.
Jim Dine has had more than 300 exhibitions during his career, including retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1970), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1978), Museum Folkwang, Essen (2015-16), among others. He is a very popular artist and his work is in the collections of most of the world's major collectors and art institutions.
The work will be sold at Contemporary Art & Design.
Estimate 800 000 - 1 000 000 SEK
Viewing: April 19 – 23, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm
Open: weekdays 11 am – 6 pm, weekends 11 am – 4 pm
Live auction: April 24 – 25, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm