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ROBERT INDIANA The Great LOVE.
Estimate:
$10,000 - $15,000
Passed
Live Auction
Contemporary Art
Description
ROBERT INDIANA
The Great LOVE.
Color screenprint on white wove museum board, 2008. 965x965 mm; 38x38 inches, full margins. One of 12 numbered artist's proofs. Signed, dated, inscribed "AP" and numbered 2/12 in pencil, lower margin. Published by G & S Editions, New York, with the blind stamp lower left. A very good impression with vibrant colors.
Indiana (1928-2018) painted the original version of The Great LOVE in 1966; this joined, four panel oil on canvas is now in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. According to Indiana, "The first LOVE paintings [from the 1960s] were red, blue and green because my father worked for Phillips 66 and in those days, in the 30s and 40s, all Phillips stations were red and green; the gas pumps, the uniforms, the oil cans. It was a large Phillips 66 sign against a blue sky which I passed hundreds of times as a boy which determined the colors of the LOVE painting.
The Great LOVE.
Color screenprint on white wove museum board, 2008. 965x965 mm; 38x38 inches, full margins. One of 12 numbered artist's proofs. Signed, dated, inscribed "AP" and numbered 2/12 in pencil, lower margin. Published by G & S Editions, New York, with the blind stamp lower left. A very good impression with vibrant colors.
Indiana (1928-2018) painted the original version of The Great LOVE in 1966; this joined, four panel oil on canvas is now in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. According to Indiana, "The first LOVE paintings [from the 1960s] were red, blue and green because my father worked for Phillips 66 and in those days, in the 30s and 40s, all Phillips stations were red and green; the gas pumps, the uniforms, the oil cans. It was a large Phillips 66 sign against a blue sky which I passed hundreds of times as a boy which determined the colors of the LOVE painting.