Me in Apetlon
| Artist | Jim Dine (American, b. 1935) |
|---|---|
| Title | Me in Apetlon |
| Date | 2016 |
| Medium | Lithograph on paper |
| Dimensions | Image: 27 5/8 × 21 in. (70.2 × 53.3 cm) Sheet: 30 1/4 × 23 7/8 in. (76.8 × 60.6 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Artist, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 2017.73 |
| This artwork is currently off display. You may be able to see this artwork by filling out an art viewing room request. | |
A bust-length self-portrait in black ink that depicts a man with a white beard, round wire glasses, and shirt buttoned at the shoulder. He is placed within a thin rectangular border with rounded corners.
Based on a drawing that Jim Dine completed while doing a residency in Apetlon, Austria, this lithographic print reveals a thoughtful, perhaps anxious, man of advancing age. Throughout his long career, Dine has used his own face as a model and as an exercise in self-examination. An image similar to this one is repeated in several plates of the artist’s Pinocchio suite, cementing Dine’s close personal association with the character of Geppetto—the loving, albeit beleaguered, craftsman and father figure in the Italian fairytale.
2017, Gift to the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University from the artist, Jim Dine, via the Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
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"Me in Apetlon | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2017.73