Live Auction 7873Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Auction
Robert Indiana (b. 1928)
Lot 338

Robert Indiana (b. 1928)

Love

Closed15 October 2010

Price Realised

GBP 337,250

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Robert Indiana (b. 1928)
Love
stamped with artist's signature, numbered and dated '1966-1999 R. INDIANA AP 3/6' (lower edge)
polychrome aluminium
36 x 36 x 18in. (91.4 x 91.4 x 45.7cm.)
Conceived in 1966 and executed in 1999, this work is number three from an edition of six plus four artist proofs

Galerie Guy Pieters, Knokke.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

"...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).