TEL AVIV.- The scope of Jim Dine’s extended work in print attests to the pivotal place of this medium in his oeuvre at large. The concentration on the medium’s unique qualities, the attentiveness to the options revealed during the work process, the centrality of workshop practice—all these characterize Dine as a quintessential print artist. Dine took up printmaking in the early 1960s. He was not drawn to screenprint and the photo-mechanical techniques, with their anonymous pop art look. From the very outset he developed a preference for lithography, which enabled him to work directly on the stone—in pencil, brush, and ink—to create surface and line occurrences indicating the gestures and movement of his hand. Indeed, in their affinity with Abstract Expressionism, these lithographs