Jim Dine
(b. 1935)
Glyptotek Drawings [26]
Charcoal and pastel on plastic sheet
17 3/4 x 12 5/8 inches
Item description:
This is one of two drawings inspired by a sculpture of a kneeling youth protecting himself from an impending attack. It is the only figure Dine repeated throughout the forty Glyptotek Drawings. He revisited the figure in the drawing Twisted Torso of A Youth (Ilioneus, ca. 300 BC), 1989, also on view in the exhibition.
Torso of a Kneeling Athlete, ca. 300 B.C.., Glyptothek, Munich
Credits:
Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyprothek München
Photograph by : Renate Kühling
Photograph courtesy of The Pace Gallery.
© 2011 Jim Dine / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York