Jim Dine Serigraph?

I think this is a serigraph signed by Jim Dine entitled 8 hearts. I've seen various versions of this on the internet with widely varying valuations.

Do you think this is a serigraph? I've included closeups to help.

 

I do think it's a serigraph, but one pulled on too light a weight of paper, hence the wrinkles as it dried.

 

After a quick internet search, the term 'LITHOGRAPH' seems more accurate.

I'm actually of the belief that the 2 are interchangeable, as long as "litho" does not refer to offset printing, but rather, to hand printing.

Perhaps a more knowledgeable art person will know the answer to this, please be patient.

 

I don't think the wrinkles appeared as it dried, I don't remember those being there when I bought it. The paper is actually pretty thick, and kind of "plasticized". I think if anything the wrinkles may be from temperature variation over time shrinking and/or contracting this paper creating the wrinkles. I think if I took it out of the frame I would easily be able to smooth that out.

 

I think it would need to be wax-backed or adhesive-backed to remove the wrinkles, they've been in place too long. At that, it could ruin the print.

@moreotherstuff , @blooey , may know more about your art print. I do think it was done by Jim Dine and is worth whatever the market will bear. I would not mess around with trying to get those wrinkles out!

 

I've seen one of these before, I believe this is an offset litho on textured stock but hard to say definitively from a few pics. Doesn't seem to be a good choice for silkscreen process looking at the design. Silkscreen is better suited to blocks of colour not complex blends.
Blends and tonal graduation can be achieved using silkscreen of course but that is not the usual choice of process for a design like this with lots of tonal variance.

 

Thanks blooey. Would more pictures help you determine the printing process?

I'll post some more closeups if that would help.

 

What Blooey said. (And big difference between silkscreen and lithograph)

Titled: Eight Hearts

I'm finding possibly 2 different versions online: one says lithograph, the other says screenprint. The screenprint is a tad larger, but not so much that you wonder if it's how it was measured. (I've found a couple of examples of each online.)

https://www.spellmangallery.com/artists/jim-dine

https://education.uiowa.edu/lindquist-art-collection/eight-hearts

The lithograph is more common, but then I don't really know if there are actually two different versions.

 

Yes there is a big difference between serigraph and silk screen (I got mixed up) apologies.

 

Serigraph and screen printing are pretty much interchangeable. Lithograph and silk screen are not.

 

The terms refer to the same process. The term silkscreen is no longer used and is replaced by screen print or serigraph as the screens are no longer silk.

 

And there you have exactly what my muddy brain fog was trying to say. Thank you MOS

 

Keeping it very simple a litho is made off a plate and a serigraph (screen print) is made by pushing ink through a screen.

 

I know, reader.

 

Thank you, reader.