Lot 443
443
Robert Indiana (b. 1923)
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Robert Indiana (b. 1923)

Love

Details
Robert Indiana (b. 1923)
Love
stamped '1966-1998 R INDIANA 6/6' (on one inner side)
polychromed aluminium
72 x 72 x 36in. (183 x 183 x 91.3cm.)
Executed in 1966-1998, this work is number six from an edition of six
Provenance
Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist circa 2003).
Literature
L. Frankel (ed.), Robert Indiana, New York 1990 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 196-197).
Exhibited
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Eros in der Kunst der Moderne, October 2006-February 2007 (illustrated in colour, p. 161).
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Sale room notice
This work will be included in the Robert Indiana catalogue raisonné being prepared by Simon Salama-Caro.

Lot Essay

"In a sense, I got down to the subject matter of my work... the subject is defined by its expression in the word itself... 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 the calligraphy [is to reduce it] to the bare bones" (Indiana quoted in T. Brakeley (ed.), Robert Indiana, New York 1990, p. 166).

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