Alan smoking at Syndey Close in the 90's from Alan Cristea Gallery Twentieth Anniversary Portfolio
Jim Dine
American, born 1935
2015
A raw, close-up portrait etching in which Jim Dine records his friend Alan smoking, using drawinglike, smudged marks to capture a private, pensive moment.
Thick, restless black strokes and areas of rubbed shadow press the face into relief—the hand across the brow, the cigarette at the mouth, and the tangled hair create an urgent, intimate intensity that feels half-memory, half-imprint.
The print demonstrates Dine’s fusion of drawing and printmaking—using etching techniques to produce painterly, tactile surfaces—and is part of a late-career engagement with intimate, autobiographical portraits and collaborative print portfolios.
Medium
Etching from a portfolio of three aquatints (one with carborundum relief), one carborundum relief, one chromogenic print, three digital prints, four etchings (two with chine collé, one with embossing), one linoleum cut, one lithograph, three screenprints, two woodcuts, and two polymer gravures (one with woodcut)
Dimensions
composition and sheet: 18 1/2 × 14 7/8" (47 × 37.8 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Alan Cristea Gallery, London, in honor of Alan Cristea
Accession
705.2015.8
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