LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

each; overall: 365.8 x 365.8 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

stenciled with the artist's name, dated NEW YORK 1972 and inscribed 2 SPRING on the reverse of the 'E' canvas; numbered 1 of 4 in stencil on the reverse of each canvas

Exhibited:

New York, Galerie Denise René,. Robert Indiana , November - December 1972, n.p., illustrated in color (in alternate configuration). Paris, Galerie Denise René, . Group Show , 1974. Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, . Twelve American Painters , September - October 1974, pp. 38-39, illustrated in color (in alternate configuration) (as . LOVE, The Louisiana Purchase Variation ) . Rockland, Maine, The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum; and Waterville, Maine, The Colby College Museum of Art,. Indiana's Indianas: A 20 Year Retrospective of Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of Robert Indiana, July - December 1982, illustrated in color (as. Love Wall ), p. 22 (text) and p. xii, illustrated in color. Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,. The 'POP ART' Exhibition , October 1992 - January 1993, p. 143, no. 68, illustrated in color and p. 276, illustrated in color. New York, Marisa Del Re Gallery and O'Hara Gallery,. The Popular Image: Pop Art in America , October - December 1995, illustrated in color on the front and back covers. Nice, Musée d'art moderne et art contemporain,. Robert Indiana: Rétrospective 1958-1998 , June - November 1998, p. 94, illustrated (with the artist in installation at Galerie Denise René, 1972), and p. 241, illustrated in color. Portland, Portland Museum of Art; and Marietta, Cobb Museum of Art,. Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana , June 1999 - January 2000, p. 105, no. 43 (text). Milwaukee, Milwaukee Museum of Fine Art, Extended Loan, 2003 - 2004. New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, . COLOR , 2005

Literature:

John Perreault, "Having a Word with the Painter," . The Village Voice , December 7, 1972, p. 34 (text). Joseph Masheck, "Reviews: Robert Indiana; Denise René Gallery," . Artforum , February 1973, p. 81 (text). "Robert Indiana: He's a Man of Many Words," . The Republic , June 23, 1981, p. 8 (text). Edgar Allen Beem, "Robert Indiana: At Home in Penobscot Bay," . Downeast , August 1982, pp. 74-79 and p. 138 (text). John Canaday, "Aesop Revised, or the Lick of the Orthopterae,". The New York Times , December 3, 1972, p. D21 (text). John Perreault, "Having a Word with the Painter," . The Village Voice , December 7, 1972, p. 34 (text). Douglas Crimp, "New York Letter," . Art International , February 1973, p. 47 (text). Lorraine Haacke, "A bright portrayal of the American scene," . Dallas Times Herald , October 23, 1977, p. 1 (text). Carl J. Weinhardt, Jr.,. Robert Indiana , New York, 1990, pp. 162-163, illustrated in color (in alternate configuration) and p. 196, illustrated in color (in installation at Galerie Denise René, 1972). Gauville Hérve, "Indiana, Américain dans tous ses états," . Libération , October 12, 1998 (text). Simon Salama-Caro, Joachim Pissarro, John Wilmerding, and Robert Pincus-Witten, . Robert Indiana , New York, 2006, p. 278, illustrated (with the artist in installation at Galerie Denise René, 1972). Anna Saccani, . LetterScapes: A Global Survey of Typographic Installations , London, 2013, p. 152 (text

Provenance:

The Artist. Private Collection, New York. Rosenthal Fine Art Inc., Chicago. Christie's, New York, November 8, 2005, Lot 70 . Acquired by the present owner from the above