This grave stele depicts a young girl tenderly playing with a doll and goose. With his strong interplay of light and shadow as well as the contrast between sweeping strokes and rough surface textures, Dine imbued this image with romantic tone. It is a hauntingly modern vision of the ancient world.
Grave Stele of a Girl with a Doll and a Goose, ca. 370–360 B.C.., Glyptothek, Munich
Jim Dine (b. 1935), Glyptotek Drawing 35, Charcoal and pastel on plastic sheet, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyprothek München Photograph by : Renate Kühling
Photograph courtesy of The Pace Gallery. © 2011 Jim Dine / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York