A major part of the exhibition will consist of the works that Jim Dine donated in 2017 to the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre George Pompidou in Paris which has, in turn, very generously loaned those works to the Palazzo delle Esposizioni for this occasion.
The exhibition will also be showcasing a considerable number of historic works loaned by private and public European collections such as the Museo di Ca' Pesaro in Venice and the MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (both these museums are lending works from the Sonnabend Collection), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, and the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz.
A selection of works will be coming over from the United States, including the two famous 1960s paintings entitled A Black Shovel. Number 2 (1962) and Long Island Landscape (1963) from the collections of the Whitney Museum in New York, together with Shoe dated 1961 and The Studio (Landscape Painting) dated 1963, both of which the artist entered in the Venice Biennale of 1964.