Artist: (after) Jim Dine (American, 1935-)
Title: "Nassau County Museum of Art (Sculpture/Jim Dine/Pinocchio)"
*Signed by Dine in black marker lower right
Year: 2012
Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on heavy glossy Kodak paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Sheet size: 24" x 36"
Condition: Has been professionally stored away, rolled within its original tube from the museum for the exhibition since 2012. In mint condition
Though not particularly old, this work is extremely rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - East Norwich, NY; acquired directly from the Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY. Poster produced for a special exhibition of Dine's sculptural work "Sculpture/Jim Dine/Pinocchio" at the Nassau County Museum of Art from March 31 - July 8, 2012. The image featured on this poster is Dine's untitled lithograph edition from his 2006 "Pinocchio" portfolio, ("I Print Jim Dine: Catalogue Raisonne of Prints 2001-2020" - Steidl - No. 597, page 330-331).
"Sculpture/Jim Dine/Pinocchio" - Within the galleries and on the sculpture grounds at the Nassau County Museum of Art, Sculpture/Jim Dine/Pinocchio highlights Jim Dine’s recent sculptural work and his lithographs for an illustrated edition of Pinocchio. The museum’s main galleries are devoted to several themes – the artist’s Heart and Venus works, gardening and garpentry tool imagery, and recent Pinocchio sculptures. Several major sculptural works are installed outdoors on the Museum’s expansive 145-acre sculpture park and nature preserve, including The Mountains in the Distance of 1987-88. This iconic bronze work places the Venus de Milo form on its side, abstracting the vertical of the figure to evoke a horizontal of a landscape.
The second floor of the Museum is devoted to Dine’s Pinocchio prints. The impressive Pinocchio series, also published as illustrations to a translation of Carlo Collodi’s original tale, consists of 40 lithographs. The accompanying book concludes with Dine dedicating his work to the adventurous wooden boy: “His poor burned feet, his misguided judgment, his vanity about his temporary donkey ears all add up to the real sum of his parts. In the end it is his great heart that holds me.”
Sculpture/Jim Dine/Pinocchio is sponsored by the Cuchel Family. Additional generous support is provided by The Pace Gallery and Pace Prints, New York. This exhibition is also made possible by the Museum’s Board of Trustees, Museum Council, Contemporary Collectors Circle, Corporate Committee and Museum Members.
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