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JIM DINE The New French Tools 3--For Pep.
Etching, aquatint and electric tools on tan wove paper, 1984. 600x490 mm; 23 1/2x19 1/4inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 2/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris. Published by Pace, New York. From New French Tools. A very good impression.
Dine's (b. 1935) New French Tools series marked his return to these common place subjects of the 1960s and 1970s. The copper plates used in these etchings were extensively worked using power tools in the Atelier Commelynck, Paris workshop. The plate for the present work would later be reworked in the following year to produce Tools and Dreams. The titles for the New French Tools set relate to Dine's memories of Paris, "Pep" being the nickname of the printer Aldo Crommelynck's wife. Crommelynck had a close working relationship with Dine, together they collaborated on more than 100 prints. D'Oench/Feinberg 173.
