Robert Indiana
LOVE (Red Outside Blue Inside)
Auction Closed
March 5, 01:57 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Robert Indiana
1928 - 2018
LOVE (Red Outside Blue Inside)
stamped with the artist's signature, dated 1966-1999 and numbered 5/8 (on the inside of the 'V')
polychromed aluminium
45.6 by 45.3 by 23 cm. 18 by 17⅞ by 9 in.
Conceived in 1966 and fabricated in 1997, this work is number 5 from an edition of 8, plus 2 artist's proofs.
Morgan Art Foundation, Ltd. (acquired directly from the artist)
Galerie Guy Pieters, Knokke (acquired from the above in 1998)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Caracas, Galería Ateneo de Caracas, Los Estados Unidos Bajo la Optica de Robert Indiana, May - June 2001, p. 64 (another example exhibited)
Brescia, Agnellini Arte Moderna, American Dream, October 2012 - March 2013, p. 75, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
Lancaster, Lancaster Museum of Art, Art Goes Pop: American Pop Art, April - July 2014, p. 3, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Tokyo, Contemporary Art Foundation, Love & Peace: Robert Indiana Memorial Exhibition, November - December 2018, no. 4, p. 123, illustrated in colour; and p. 136, illustrated in colour (installation view) (another example exhibited)
Simon Salama-Caro, ed., The Robert Indiana Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2010 - ongoing, no. E-1966-16, illustration in colour of another example (online)
Laura Knowles, "Lancaster Goes Pop: Museums Celebrate Andy Warhol and Others Who Changed the Face of American Art", Intelligencer Journal, 10 April 2014, p. 3, illustration of another example