The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Working Script for the Stage from the Novel by Oscar Wilde with Original Images & Notes on the Text by Jim Dine

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The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Working Script for the Stage from the Novel by Oscar Wilde with Original Images & Notes on the Text by Jim Dine

Artist Jim Dine (American, born 1935)

Publisher Petersburg Press (London, 1968)

Printer Atelier Desjobert, Atelier Leblanc (Paris)

Binder Rudolph Rieser (Cologne)

Author Jim Dine (American, born 1935)

Author Oscar Wilde (Irish | British, 1854-1900)

Date1968

DimensionsPage: H: 17 3/8 in. (441 mm); W: 12 1/4 in. (310 mm).

MediumLithographs and photolithographs

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.387A-G

Not on View

DescriptionOriginal prints: 12 lithographs in colors, plus a suite of 6 color lithographs (framed separately). Reproductions: photolithographs of ink drawings annotating the text. Text: photolithography in black (typeface: typewriter). Paper: Arches white wove paper.

Label TextOscar Wilde’s story of Dorian Gray has captivated the imagination of audiences since its publication in 1890 and through the subsequent stage and film adaptations. A beautiful and youthful Gray makes a Faustian bargain that in exchange for his soul a painting of him will age and deteriorate and leave the real Gray forever youthful. Jim Dine revisits this tale at the height of the hedonistic 1960s—an updating of a classic for a new generation.Published Referencescf. Hogben, Carol, Rowan Watson, editors, From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books, London, 1985, no. 142, reprs.

cf. Von Bonin, Wibke, Michael S. Cullen, editors, Jim Dine: Complete Graphics, Berlin, 1970, no. 47, reprs.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 20.

Toledo Museum of Art, Jim Dine: Past, Present, and Future, July 28-October 8, 2000.

Toledo Museum of Art, Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Feb. 14--May 11, 2003.

Toledo Museum of Art, Word Play, Oct. 16, 2009- Feb. 7, 2010.