TitleApe & Cat in Paris
Artist
Jim Dine
(American, b. 1935)
Date2002
MediumCharcoal and oil paint on white paper
DimensionsSheet size: 51 7/8 × 31 3/8 in.
Framed: 56 3/8 × 35 1/8 × 1 7/8 in.
SignedSigned in graphite at lower right: "Jim Dine, 2002 Paris".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, September 18, 2002
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2002.10
Label TextThe human figure has intermittently been a subject in Jim Dine's long career, beginning with the use of his own body in a series of groundbreaking "Happenings" in the late 1950s. He was at the forefront of Pop Art in the 1960s and throughout the 1970s went through an intense ten-year period of drawing from the nude, culminating with his "Venus" series. The figure has since remained an important part of the artist's practice. "Ape and Cat in Paris" comes from a series by the artist in which Dine has created human forms with the heads of a cat and an ape.
