Jim Dine

Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray's Hand

1968

A hand wearing multiple ornate rings with the caption "Study for the rings on Dorian Gray's hand."
A hand wearing multiple ornate rings with the caption "Study for the rings on Dorian Gray's hand."

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Date
1968

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 17 9/16 × 12 3/16 in. (44.6 × 31 cm) Plate: 15 1/2 × 9 5/16 in. (39.4 × 23.7 cm)

Accession number
70.38.8

Edition
AP, Ed. C | Ed. 100, 15 APs

Publication
Printed by Atelier Desjobert and Atelier Leblanc; published by Petersburg Press

Credit line
Gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© Jim Dine/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/4055

Part of a series:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
11 works

Silhouette of a person wearing a black leather suit with caption Basil in black leather suit.
Red heart shape appears to be melting and dripping long red streaks downward.
A tall scribbled figure in a suit labeled Dorian Gray at Opium Den with messy hair.
Faceless figure wearing a long multicolored striped cape with a black collar.
A standing fashion sketch of a faceless figure wearing a long multi rainbow scarf and textured blue sleeve.
A large yellow lightbulb attached to a black handle casts two smaller bulbs with sweeping black trails.
Black textured stomach imprint titled "Imprint from Dorian Gray's Stomach" on cream paper.
Three red abstract piano shapes with splattered paint and small handwritten label "RED PIANO".
A hand wearing multiple ornate rings with the caption "Study for the rings on Dorian Gray's hand."
A blonde woman adjusts her undergarments under the handwritten title Sybil in her dressing room.

Jim Dine
93 works in the collection, 17 exhibitions

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