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pre view. 02 17 himself, and some obtained from other sources. In the case of the now-famous Goethe portrait (ill. 2), he used the painting ‘Goethe in the Roman Campagna’ from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. The Suhrkamp publisher Siegfried Unseld, who was also portrayed by Warhol, drew the artist ' s attention to the painting during a visit to Frankfurt in 1980, and suggest- ed that he reproduce the 1787 work by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein in his typical manner. Unlike Tisch- bein, Warhol does not show Goethe as a full-length figure, but instead opts only for the head with a wide- brimmed hat and turns it into a kind of pop art royal in- signia of the poet. The variations produced in different colours refer to Warhol ' s enthusiasm for the mass prod- uct; his credo was: ‘Thirty are better than one’. The American artist Jim Dine belongs to the same gen- eration as Andy Warhol. The large-format oil painting ‘Banging the Orange’ in our 20 June auction was cre- ated during his New York period (ill. 3). At that time, Dine ' s works primarily took the form of happenings and performances. He founded the Judson Galley in Green- wich Village with Claes Oldenburg and Marcus Ratcliff in 1958. Throughout his long career, Dine has always been an innovator; his extensive and varied oeuvre in- cludes paintings, assemblages, sculptures, drawings, prints and numerous volumes of poetry. 2 3