# Jim Dine artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jim-dine/
Profile generated: 2026-04-29T03:25:00.000Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1935-06-16
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Neo-Dada, Happenings, Pop Art
- Common media: painting (oil and acrylic), printmaking (lithograph, etching, woodcut, screenprint), sculpture (bronze, mixed media), drawing, photography, assemblage

## 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.

## 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-house-backed market evidence

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.

### Appraisal notes

An Appraisily appraisal for a Jim Dine work would draw on the 2,841-lot auction record index to identify comparable sales by medium, subject, date, edition, and size. For prints, the appraiser would verify edition number, total edition size, paper type, and signature against catalogue raisonné references and published cataloguing. For paintings and sculptures, provenance documentation, exhibition history, condition reports, and museum-collection comparables would be weighted more heavily. The wide price range ($20–$1,200,000) means that accurate medium identification, dimensions, signature status, and condition are essential to narrowing the value bracket. Photographs of the work, any gallery or auction labels, bills of sale, and exhibition checklists should be provided alongside the item for a credible appraisal. Dine's recurring motifs—especially hearts, tools, and bathrobes—have well-established auction track records that support comparable-lot analysis.

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### Market evidence sources

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## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from museum, library-authority, and biographical sources with public auction records, auction-house cataloguing, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Market observations are grounded in documented sale data and published references, not price predictions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531234
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dine
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80040132
- RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History): https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/23210
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/1547
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jim-dine-1009
- VIAF / OCLC: https://viaf.org/viaf/61562057/