Live Auction 2848Post-War and Contemporary Morning Session
Robert Indiana (b. 1928)
Lot 153

Robert Indiana (b. 1928)

LOVE

Closed14 May 2014

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USD 581,000

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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.

Morgan Art Foundtaion, acquired directly from the artist
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Waddington Gallery, London
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 calligraphy [is to reduce it] to the bare bone"
(R. Indiana, quoted in T. Brakeley (ed.), Robert Indiana, New York, 1990, p. 168).