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Original etching and soft-ground etching printed in black ink on Arches Cover Buff wove paper, with hand-coloring added in several acrylic colors. Hand-signed and dated in pencil in the margin lower left Jim Dine 1993.
A superb impression of the definitive state, from the edition of 75, numbered in pencil in the margin. Published at the Spring Street Workshop, New York: printed there by Bill Hall and Julia D’Amario. Catalog: Carpenter 73
Image size: 12 3/8 x 21 1/4 inches / Sheet Size: 20 3/4 x 27 7/8 inches / Framed size: 22 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches
In excellent condition, with bright, fresh colors, printed on a full sheet.
Literature regarding this artwork: Print Collector’s Newsletter 25, no. I, March-April 1994, p. 25.
“The robes have become much more mysterious than they used to be, and that’s because I understand them more. 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. Those early robes were just about autobiography through objects.”
-Jim Dine
