Live Auction 17647Post-War to Present
Robert Indiana (1928-2018)
Lot 119

Robert Indiana (1928-2018)

Love

Closed27 September 2019

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USD 495,000

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Robert Indiana (1928-2018)
Love
stamped with the artist's name, number and date '© 1966-1999 R INDIANA AP 4/4' (lower edge)
polychrome aluminum
36 x 36 x 18 in. (91.4 x 91.4 x 45.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1966 and executed in 1999. This work is the fourth artist's proof from an edition of six plus four artist's proofs.

Morgan Art Foundation, New York
Private collection, Hong Kong
Private collection, California
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 14 May 2009, lot 162
Galería Freites, Caracas
Private collection, Florida

Specialist note

"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.” - Robert Indiana