The Mandrake

2000

Jim Dine

Associated Names
Jim Dine

Artist, American, born 1935

The image shows a stylized plant with large, overlapping leaves and thick, twisting roots, with several pink buds peeking out among the leaves. The color palette consists of various shades of green for the leaves, earthy browns for the roots, and soft pinks for the buds, set against a background that transitions from teal to deeper blue. The plant fills most of the frame, with its roots sprawling across the bottom section and its leaves reaching upwards in all directions.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored etching with drypoint on Hahnemühle wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Artist

  • Dimensions

    plate: 54.61 × 45.09 cm (21 1/2 × 17 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 80.65 × 65.41 cm (31 3/4 × 25 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.11.60

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Carpenter 2002, no. 141.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift of the artist, 2014.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Carpenter, Elizabeth. Jim Dine Prints, 1985-2000: A Catalogue Raisonné. Minnesota: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, no. 141.

Inscriptions

in graphite, below plate mark: Jim Dine

Wikidata ID

Q77006300

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