Contemporary Art & Design presenterar Jim Dine

Jim Dine, "In the Harem, Abu Tor"

Bukowskis presenterar verket "In the Harem, Abu Tor" av Jim Dine på den kommande auktionen Contemporary Art & Design – Nordens enda renodlade liveauktion för samtida konst och design.

Målningen "In the Harem, Abu Tor" (1979) visar ett av Jim Dines mest ikoniska motiv, badrocken. Badrockar har varit ett centralt motiv genom hela hans konstnärskap och återkommer i flera av hans många tekniker. Dine började måla badrockar redan på 1960-talet. Trots att han själv hävdar att han aldrig använt badrock personligen antog de tidigt formen av självporträtt. I en intervju i ARTnews september 1977 beskrev Dine sitt förhållande till den magiska badrocken:

“The robes have become much more mysterious than they used to be, and that’s because I understand them more. Obviously, there’s some hidden significance there. But what’s funny is that I don’t own a bathrobe. I don’t wear one. I don’t walk around in one. I never see bathrobes around me, nor do I see people wearing them. I don’t have a bathrobe to paint from. What I use is what I’ve used from the very beginning - a newspaper ad which I clipped out of The New York Times back in 1963. The ad shows a robe with the man airbrushed out of it. Well, it somehow looked like me, and I thought I’d make that a symbol for me. Actually, it all began when I wanted to paint a self-portrait . . . and just couldn’t. It’s important for me to say this, because what I really wanted to do was sit in front of a mirror and paint a portrait of myself. But at the time, I was in analysis and the pressures I felt prevented me from going through with it.”