One of the most consistently innovative artists to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, Jim Dine was a pioneer of the Happenings movement and is closely associated with the inception of Pop-Art. Dine’s work often reveals a characteristic interplay between actual and painted objects, where everyday items can be found anchored to his canvases. For Dine, the canvas represents the ultimate manifestation of “unreality”; his found objects, conversely, the embodiment of what is real. The alchemical aspect of translating concrete objects into pictorial landscapes has been a source of fascination and a unifying thread throughout Dine’s extensive career, which has spanned drawings, works on paper, paintings, assemblages, and sculpture. His subjects have included plants, animals, figures, puppets, and self-portraits, and his iconic depictions of hearts, tools, and robes have become the hallmark of his oeuvre. In recent years he has created powerful large-scale works using acrylic paint, sand and charcoal embodying abstraction and motion.