LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas with wooden shelf and painted glass, tin, ceramic and wood

Measurements:

60.00 in. (152.40 cm.) (height) by 108.50 in. (275.60 cm.) (width) by 10.00 in. (25.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed with the artist's initials J.D. (on the reverse of five canvases); signed Jim Dine (on the reverse of one canvas)

Exhibited:

Venice, XXXII Biennale International d'Arte, June - October 1964, no. 38, illustrated p. 278 . Syracuse, Everson Museum & Albany, University Art Gallery, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Schwartz, July 1969 - January 1970, no. 5, illustrated. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jim Dine, February - April 1970, no. 59, illustrated. Milwaukee Art Center, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Schwartz, January - February 1971, no. 5, illustrated. Detroit Institute of Arts, Pop Art: Thirty Years Later, July 1992 - August 1993 . New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Cincinnati Art Museum, Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959-1969, February 1999 - January 2000, illustrated in color pl. 112

Literature:

David Shapiro, Jim Dine: Painting What One Is, New York, 1981, illustrated in color pl. 89. The Folding Image (exhibition catalogue), Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1983. Jean E. Feinberg, Modern Masters: Jim Dine, New York, 1995, fig. 55, illustrated in color p. 63. Richard Whelan, The Book of Rainbows: Art, Literature, Science, & Mythology, Chesterfield, 1997, illustrated in color p. 146

Provenance:

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Schwartz, New York (and sold: Christie's, New York, November 3, 1978, lot 32). Acquired at the above sale by A. Alfred Taubman