Live Auction 7487Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
Robert Indiana (b. 1928)
Lot 406 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

Robert Indiana (b. 1928)

Four

Closed16 October 2007

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GBP 246,500

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Robert Indiana (b. 1928)
Four
signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'INDIANA FOUR NYC 1965' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 1/8in. (61 x 61.2cm.)
Painted in 1965

Rolf Nelson, New York.
Acquired from the above by the previous owner.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 15 September 2004, lot 38.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

"Numbers, here as throughout Indiana's work, are powerful signs to conjure with. 'They are an incredible invention and should be celebrated ...' His number paintings, in which the integers stand alone, celebrate and personify the magic of singularity, duality, trinity, and so on to nothingness or infinity" (T. Brakeley, Robert Indiana, New York 1990, pp. 90-92).