Jim Dine Auction Prices and Value Guide

Jim Dine auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 7,830 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Jim Dine auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Jim Dine
Source records
7,830
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Jim Dine

Jim Dine (born 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, photographer, and performance artist whose career has spanned more than six decades. He first came to prominence in the early 1960s as a key participant in the Happenings movement in downtown New York, alongside Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and Robert Whitman. Though often associated with Pop Art and Neo-Dada, Dine's work resists easy classification, drawing equally on personal symbolism, literary allusion, and gestural painting. Recurring motifs—including hearts, tools, bathrobes, the Venus de Milo, and Pinocchio—form an autobiographical visual vocabulary that recurs across paintings, prints, sculptures, and drawings. His work is held in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate, and the Centre Pompidou. Dine studied at the Cincinnati Art Museum and Ohio University before moving to New York in the late 1950s, and he has held teaching and artist-in-residence positions at Oberlin College, Williams College, and other institutions.

Neo-DadaHappeningsPop Artpainting (oil and acrylic)printmaking (lithograph, etching, woodcut, screenprint)sculpture (bronze, mixed media)drawingheartstools (hammers, saws, wrenches)bathrobes (self-portrait motif)

Common works and media

Dine's output encompasses oil and acrylic paintings, bronze and mixed-media sculptures, lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, screenprints, charcoal and pastel drawings, photographs, and assemblages incorporating found objects. Heart paintings and prints are among the most recognizable and commonly encountered works at auction. Tool-themed drawings and wall-mounted assemblages featuring hand tools are also widely traded. Editioned prints—often produced in collaboration with major print workshops—represent a substantial portion of the secondary market. Later bodies of work include large-scale bronze sculptures of Venus de Milo, Pinocchio, and flowers, as well as densely worked charcoal drawings on canvas.

Market and appraisal context

Jim Dine's secondary market is deep and liquid, with 2,841 auction lots recorded by Appraisily spanning May 2001 through April 2026, of which 1,689 carry a realized price. The price distribution is wide: the recorded minimum is $20 and the maximum is $1,200,000, with a median of $1,680 and an interquartile range of $650–$5,500. This dispersion reflects Dine's prolific output across media—editioned prints trade at accessible price points while original paintings and large-scale bronzes command six-figure sums. The bulk of traded material consists of lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, screenprints, and exhibition posters, which appear frequently at both tier-one houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, Bonhams) and regional specialists (Rago Arts and Auction Center, DUMBO Auctions, Hill Auction Gallery, Forum Auctions). Recent comparable lots from 2024–2026 show signed etchings and lithographs realizing $125–$3,175, with heart, tool, bathrobe, and flower motifs dominating. Auction volume in the most recent twelve months (156 priced lots) is lower than the preceding twelve months (280 lots), which may indicate typical market cyclicality rather than a structural decline. Dine's presence across major international auction houses and his long, well-documented exhibition history support sustained collector interest and reliable price discovery.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Post-War and Contemporary Art
  • Prints and Multiples
  • Works on Paper
  • Posters and Exhibition Graphics
  • Sculpture (bronze, mixed media)

Value drivers

  1. Medium and scale: original paintings, drawings, large bronzes, assemblages, signed prints, posters, and photographs occupy distinct value tiers.
  2. Motif and subject: hearts, tools, bathrobes, Venus de Milo, Pinocchio, flowers, and Happenings-era material should be compared within separate demand pools.
  3. Edition and signature: print values depend on edition size, proof type, paper, printer, publisher, hand signature, and catalogue references.
  4. Condition and presentation: paper staining, fading, creasing, mat burn, sculpture patina, casting condition, and frame quality affect comparable relevance.
  5. Provenance and exhibition history: major gallery, museum, or auction provenance matters most for paintings, sculptures, and important works on paper.
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Appraisal caveats

  • Dine's print output is extensive; editioned prints are common at auction and vary widely in value
  • Attribution of early Happenings-era works should be confirmed through cataloguing
  • Market for prints and multiples is volume-heavy; individual sale prices depend heavily on edition, size, and date
  • Aggregate Jim Dine statistics mix editioned prints, posters, works on paper, sculptures, and paintings; medium-specific filtering is required before valuation.

Evidence

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Data basis

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Artist value FAQ

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