Nov 19, 2020 - Sale 2552

Sale 2552 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JIM DINE
Hammer and Rainbow.

Pencil and watercolor on typed letter with Xerox, circa 1963. 330x215 mm; 13x8 1/2 inches. Signed and inscribed "Dear Audrey, I love your Xerox! Many Thanx Jim Dine."

Ex-collection private collection, St. Louis.

The recipient of this work, Audrey Sabol, was a curator of contemporary art who founded the Beautiful Bag and Box Co. with Joan Kron. She wrote this letter to Dine with a photocopy of a hammer, which Dine embellished and returned to her.