PaceWildenstein, New York John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Jim Dine: Recent Paintings, May 1 - 31, 2003
Catalogue Essay
One Sunday, in the New York Times Magazine, I saw this ad for bathrobes, and it was a bathrobe with nobody in it. It looked like me. It looked like my physique. So I thought, If I use this, I really can make a miraculous self-portrait. Jim Dine, 1999
There's a considerable chance that any given piece of art with a heart has been made by Jim Dine. The artist has been prolific in his 60-plus years of producing works, from large-scale Pop-inflected paintings to emotive and lush collaged works-on-paper. Even while working within a childlike vocabulary, Dine has often been considered alongside rougher painters like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and has surprised critics and audiences by flexing his muscles as an original generator of performance art "Happenings" or towering series of sculptures.
Dine never fails to surprise at the auction block. His best at-auction works, stemming from the 1960s, often double their pre-auction estimates. His two highest results were $420,000 in 2007 and $418,000 more recently in 2015.
2002 oil, acrylic, sand, charcoal on wood panel 60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm.) Signed, titled and dated “Yellow Rushing Towards Me Jim Dine 2002” on the reverse.
Estimate $70,000 - 90,000
Sold for $269,000
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