RARE: Jim Dine signed exhibition poster from 1969

featuring ‘Rainbow Scissors’

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Rainbow Scissors, 1969, a signed poster by Jim Dine

This rare offset lithograph was printed for ‘Complete Graphics’, an exhibition of Jim Dine’s early graphic works held at Galerie Mikro, Berlin, in 1970.

Printed by London publishing house Petersburg Press, it was adapted from Dine’s original lithograph, which features motifs synonymous with the artist. Petersburg Press are renowned for their collaborative process with emerging artists of the 1960s, as such, this exceptional collector’s item is signed by Dine in pencil.

Tools including scissors and hammers alongside motifs including rainbows and hearts feature throughout Dine’s (b.1935) artworks to this day, and offer an autobiographical account, tied to family, love, grief and identity.

Dine’s artistic practice includes painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography and poetry. When he was 16 and his grandfather was unwell, Dine began attending art school in the evenings and spent most of his time in his grandfather’s workshop, where he made his first print.

For Dine, the tools that he was surrounded by throughout his childhood are synonymous with his connection to his family and his creativity.