LOVE

Details

Robert Indiana (b. 1928)
LOVE
stamped with signature, number and date '1966-98 R Indiana AP 4/4' (on the interior edge of the E)
polychrome aluminum
36 x 36 x 18 in. (91 x 91 x 41.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1966 and executed in 1998. This work is artist's proof four from an edition of six plus four artist's proofs.

Provenance

Morgan Art Foundtaion, acquired directly from the artist
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Waddington Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Special Notice

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Sale Room Notice

This work will be included in the forthcoming Robert Indiana catalogue raisonné being prepared by Simon Salama-Caro.

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Lot Essay

"LOVE is purely a skeleton of all that word has meant in all the erotic and religious aspects of the theme, and to bring it down to the actual structure of calligraphy [is to reduce it] to the bare bone"
(R. Indiana, quoted in T. Brakeley (ed.), Robert Indiana, New York, 1990, p. 168).

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