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Robert Indiana's First Love Painting: Property from a Private Collection, Vermont

Robert Indiana

Love

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Indiana's First Love Painting: Property from a Private Collection, Vermont

Robert Indiana

1928 - 2018


Love

signed, titled and dated 1965 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

24 by 24 in.

61 by 61 cm.

Executed in 1965.

Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles

Private Collection, San Francisco (acquired from the above circa 1965)

Acquired from the above as a gift in August 1966 by the present owner

Klaus Jürgen-Fischer, "Neue Abstraktion: Robert Indiana," Das Kunstwerk, April 18 1965, illustrated in color (on the cover), p. 65, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio)

Simon Salama-Caro, ed., The Robert Indiana Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2010 - ongoing, no. P-1965-35, illustrated in color (online)

Los Angeles, Rolf Nelson Gallery, Robert Indiana, May - June 1965