Jim Dine b. 1935
For nearly six decades, American artist Jim Dine has evoked the power of symbolism, familiarity, and the search for self through a variety of mediums. A seeming critique on modern society, Dine places personal possessions and regular objects at the focal point of his prints, drawings, paintings, and sculptures. His evolving imagery includes reoccurring themes such as heart shapes, bathrobes, tools, and the human body for which he is best known.
Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1935. His grandfather owned a hardware store where he worked throughout his youth later influencing his interest in ordinary objects. “I grew up with tools…I’ve always been enchanted by these objects made by anonymous hands,” he has stated. From 1953-1957 Dine studied poetry at the University of Cincinnati and later the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. After receiving his BFA from the Ohio University in Athens, GA, he moved to New York in 1958.
Upcoming Lots Jim Dine
Auction Results Jim Dine
Jim Dine
Venus with Tools and Shell
estimate: $50,000–70,000
result: $62,500
Jim Dine
Plant Becomes a Fan
estimate: $20,000–30,000
result: $28,160
Jim Dine
The Cartoons
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $25,000
Jim Dine
Colored Circle
estimate: $20,000–30,000
result: $16,250
Jim Dine
The Forest Up North
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $15,000
Jim Dine
Hart in Blu
estimate: $8,000–12,000
result: $10,625
Jim Dine
Landscape screen
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $9,375
Jim Dine
Ravenna in November
estimate: $6,000–8,000
result: $8,125
Jim Dine
Landscape Screen
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $7,500
Jim Dine
A Silver Rainbow
estimate: $1,500–2,000
result: $6,875
Jim Dine
The Temple of Flora
estimate: $4,000–6,000
result: $6,600
Jim Dine
Self-Portrait: The Landscape
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $6,250
Jim Dine
Night Portrait
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $3,750
Jim Dine
Hearts and a Watercolor
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $3,750
Jim Dine
Self in the Ocean
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $3,250
Jim Dine
Red Bathrobe
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $3,250
Jim Dine
The End of the Crash
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $3,250
Jim Dine
Imogen and Imogen III
estimate: $300–500
result: $3,120
Jim Dine
A Sunny Woodcut
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $3,068
Jim Dine
Valentine
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $3,000
Jim Dine
The Foreign Plowman
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $2,500
Jim Dine
The Sky & Lillies (from Flowers in Manhattan)
estimate: $3,000–4,000
result: $2,375
Jim Dine
Flaubert Favorites, Edition A (four works)
estimate: $1,500–2,000
result: $2,125
Jim Dine
Cincinnati I
estimate: $1,500–2,000
result: $2,125