One of the most celebrated sculptures from antiquity, the Barberini Faun depicts a drunken, sleeping satyr, sprawled on a rock. In this sheet, Dine emphasized the satyr's dreamlike state and heightened the sculpture's sensual abandon with light washes that soften the rocky bed.
Barberini Faun, ca. 220 B.C.., Glyptothek, Munich
Jim Dine (b. 1935), Glyptotek Drawing 4, Charcoal and lithographic crayon 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