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Robert Indiana
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
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Description
- Robert Indiana
- Love Wall (Red Green Blue)
- stamped on the reverse
- oil on canvas, in four parts
- 120 1/2 x 120 1/2 in. 306 x 306 cm.
- Executed in 1966.
Provenance
Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf
Acquired by the present owner from the above in October 1968
Acquired by the present owner from the above in October 1968
Exhibited
Kassel, Documenta IV, June - October 1968, cat. no. 3, p. 130, illustrated (panels arranged incorrectly)
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Sammlung Helga und Walther Lauffs - Amerikanische und europäische Kunst der sechziger und siebziger Jahre, November 1983 - April 1984, cat. no. 169, p. 83, illustrated in color
Catalogue 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.'' -
Robert Indiana