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Jim Dine

Jim Dine Bolt Cutters Etching Print

Jim Dine bolt cutters

Jim Dine bolt cutters, Bolt Cutters (first state), Jim Dine, American b.1935- drypoint etching and aquatint, signed and dated 1973, numbered 1/75

Etching from one 60.3cm x 61.6cm (23.75″ x 24.25″) copper plate. Printed in black on sheet of 101.6cm x 76.2cm (40″ x 30″) Hodgkinson Mould Made paper.

Edition of 75

15 artist’s proofs

Published by Petersburg Press, London; proofed by Hartmut Freilinghaus and printed by Maurice Payne.

There was also a second edition of  Jim Dine bolt cutters (second state) using the same plate rotated with aquatint and etching lines added. The second edition was printed by Petersburg Press in New York.

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Jim Dine prints Scissors and Rainbow Lithograph

Jim Dine prints – A lithograph in colours, signed, dated 1969 and

inscribed ‘A/P’ (Artists proof) lower centre, dedicated ‘for

Hercules, London 1969, J.D.’ lower right

Purchased from the estate of the film producer Hercules Bellville

 

A very rare artists proof of Jim Dine’s  Scissors and Rainbow print.

Scissors and Rainbow was proofed as an edition of six, the edition was originally intended to be the size of this proof. However, the edition was inadvertently burned on a hot plate in a hotel room in New York City. Dine had the burned bottom portions cut off and hand coloured the six prints to balance the change in dimension. source: Jim Dine Prints: 1970-1977 Copyright © 1977 by the president of the Trustees of Williams College

Our Artists proof has some staining and discolouration to the lower edge. Its not certain but perhaps this was the “burn” that was cut away from the final editioned print?

Hercules Bellville (June 18, 1939 – February 21, 2009) was an American film producer & friend of Jim Dine. Working with Jeremy Thomas at London’s Recorded Picture Company for much of his later career, he was an associate producer on The Dreamers and Sexy Beast, and the co-producer of Blood and Wine. Formerly Bellville acted as Roman Polanski‘s assistant director on many films, working with the director in a creative capacity for over a decade. Bellville was an associate producer on Polanski’sThe Tenant, and it is his hands that come through the wall to menace Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion.[1]

 

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 See more work by Jim Dine including – 54 items from 60 Chester Square – Jim Dine’s 70’s London studio

Jim Dine Litho – Ties

Jim Dine (b.1935) ‘Ties’,1970, ed 4 of 150, hand coloured Lithograph, signed

Lithograph offset from zinc plates. Printed in black on sheet of 76.2cm x 55.9cm (30″ x 22″) Crisbrook Waterleaf paper, hand painted by Jim Dine with watercolour after editioning.

Jim Dine  has been a dynamic presence in the art world for more than four decades. His reputation soared during the early sixties, when his mixed-media assemblages–works that incorporate store-bought items such as tools, ties, and bathroom fixtures–drew him into the world of pop art. Although his name grew to be inextricably linked to pop, the relationship was always an uneasy fit. Dine was ill suited to the movement’s cool approach. Indeed, he persistently chose imagery with personal resonance and favored the expressive and handmade over the impassive and mechanical.

Pop Artist Jim Dine was born June 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of 12 Jim Dine´s mother died and Dine went to live with his maternal grandparents. Dine’s grandfather owned a hardware store where Jim Dine worked throughout his youth and came to know and appreciate the beauty of hand tools. It is not surprising that Jim Dine would turn to them as a theme later on. Jim Dine states that he adopted tools as a subject “because they felt right….like relatives…as though their last name was Dine.”

54 items from 60 Chester Square – Jim Dine studio collection


A unique collection saved from the bins of Jim Dine’s vacated Chester Square studio in 1971 at the request of Princess Sylvia Guirey (née Obolensky/Astor) the artist’s London landlady, this collection was stored and forgotten until 2012.
The artworks in this group, mainly working sketches for print blocks, represent a pivotal era in the artist’s direction. Together with personal artefacts including photographs, letters and postcards, poems and manuscripts personally dedicated to Dine from poets Adrian Henri and Ron Padgett, and objects including paintbrushes, pencils and other material used in the creation of his artworks, this group offers a truly unique insight into the life of Jim Dine, one of the most significant artists of his generation, while in London during the Swinging Sixties. 
Each item is numbered, 18 items are framed in white gallery box frames, 6 items are mounted on steel plinths, the remainder reside in one Dine’s old portfolios decorated with sketches and writing in Dine’s own hand.

See a slideshow of all 54 items from 60 Chester Square

Complete index of all 54 items from 60 Chester Square

A suitcase full of Dine by Colin Gleadell on The Telegraph website