In 1990 Dine traveled to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, where he spent seven days in the galleries to create this seven-part work, based on a statue of a hermaphrodite.
To highlight the subject's dual sexuality, antique sculptures of hermaphrodites typically display the figure in a complex, twisting pose. In each drawing, Dine depicted the figure from a different viewpoint. The sequence invokes the movement of the turning figure and its ability to define the space around it.
Jim Dine (b. 1935), Seven Views of the Hermaphrodite 1, 1990, Charcoal and chalk, © 2011 Jim Dine / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York