Pinocchio

Portfolio of 42 lithographs to Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio (one lithograph to each of the 36 chapters plus 6 additional lithographs) with title page and colophon; printed on Hahnemühle Off-White

300 gsm paper and Hahnemühle Cream

300 gsm paper (lithographs to chapters 14, 31); housed in a wooden portfolio box

Dimensions

Portfolio box: 24 x 19 5/16 x 3 3/8 (61 × 49 × 8.5)

Paper and image: 22 x 17 1/4 (56 × 44)

(each print, approx.)

Inscriptions

Numbered and signed "Jim Dine" (on colophon), studio stamp with indication of chapter number on the back of the chapter prints; the additional lithographs numbered and signed "Jim Dine"

Edition and proofs

35, 6 AP, 1 BAT, 4 PP

Publisher

Steidl, Göttingen

Printers and workshops

Daniel Clarke, Aurélie Pagès, Ismael Orgambidez, and Michael Woolworth at Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris; wooden portfolio box designed by Daniel Clarke and Jim Dine and made at Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris

Working period

2005-2006

Whereabouts

Essen (AP)

Literature

Caroline Joubert: L'odyssée de Jim Dine, in:

L'odyssée de Jim Dine, pp. 12-13, 19, cf, pp. 29, 142-180, 188; A printmaker's document, pp. 209, 212, 240-241; Tobias Burg: Dine und seine Drucker, in: About the Love of Printing, pp. 21-29, cf. pp. 28,137, fig. 172-175

Comments

Lithograph plates were drawn in New York City, Paris, and Walla Walla, WA. The 6 additional lithographs serve as a visual introduction, presenting the main figures of the story. Four of them correspond to the lithographs made for chapters 3, 12, 18, and 26, albeit without their textual elements. A book edition of this portfolio, combining the 36 lithographs with the text by Carlo Collodi, was published 2006 separately in German and English by Steidl, Göttingen (cat. no. 598).