Jim Dine
The Red, White and Blue Venus for Mondale (D'Oench and Feinberg 182)
About the SessionSpanning 4 centuries of global art history, The International Sale, presents 127 exceptional lots by artists from 27 countries across five continents. The auction highlights masterworks ranging from 17th century European paintings to post-2000 editions by contemporary artist's such as Mr Brainwash (lot 51), Jim Dine (lots 83-86), Isaac Julien (lot 108), Jeff Koons (45), and Lucas Samaras (lot 107 and 110). The sale is anchored by important pieces from Georg Baselitz, Erik Laubscher, Shirin Neshat, and a newly repatriated 1935 portrait by Irma Stern.
The auction's diversity is driven by rare museum-quality highlights, led by Irma Stern's Two Women (lot 31), which returns to South Africa after decades in a Berlin private collection. It is joined by Erik Laubscher's rare recto-verso painting Young Family / Construction (lot 48), an Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat photographic portrait linked to her award-winning Turbulent installation (lot 66), and a uniquely hand-coloured linocut by German master Georg Baselitz titled Das Pferd, Im Wald und auf der Heide Series (The Horse, in the Forest and on the Heath Series) (lot 72).
LOT 84
Jim Dine
The Red, White and Blue Venus for Mondale (D'Oench and Feinberg 182)
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About this Item
signed and numbered 88/150 in pencil; stamped with the artist's name, the date, the title and medium on the reverse
Notes
Published by Pace Editions, New York and printed by Steve Maiorano, Screened Images, Port Washington.
The artist donated the entire edition of the present lot to a benefit sale held in support of Walter Mondale's U. S presidential campaign
Jim Dine, born June 16, 1935, is an American artist known for his prominent contributions to the formations of both Performance Art and Pop Art. Dine's work can be described as multimedia as it includes painting, drawing, printmaking , sculpture and photography. His early works comprised mostly of assemblage and recently he has turned his focus increasingly toward poetry. The artist has been closely associated with many art movements including Neo-Dada, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art, although he has avoided such classifications.
Dine has had more than 300 solo exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1970), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1978), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1984–85), Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2011) and Museum Folkwang, Essen (2015–16). His work is in permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
Literature
Ellen D'Oench and Jean Feinberg (1986) Jim Dine Prints, 1977-1985, New York: Harper & Row, another example from the edition illustrated in black and white on page 157, cat. no. 182.
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