拍品专文
"Nine, painted in 1965, was painted when I was experimenting with moving away from the rigid use of stencils. The work was composed gestural, which is evident from the visible pencil marks in the work. This was the point in my career where I was firmly established in the art world and now more free to experiment within the series that I had created up until then. Nine looks at first to be stenciled, but as one spends more time with it the loose outline becomes more apparent reinforcing the importance of the image as well as my own meanings of the number itself. The work is unique compared to most of the other numbers that I had done up til then, its individuality heightened when compared to the sculptural numbers I have fabricated over the last four decades. This Nine is a very different Nine than is executed in aluminum, the hand made qualities enhance some of the ideas of the number itself."
—Robert Indiana
—Robert Indiana