Color screenprint on A.N.A. Crestwood Museum Edition paper
USA, 1996
Robert Indiana (b. 1928) – American Pop artist
‘Love’ from Book of Love
Signed and dated in pencil lower right ‘R Indiana ‘96’
Numbered in pencil lower left ‘154/200’
Published by American Image Editions, New York
Full margins; framed
Image dimensions: 18 1/8 x 18 in. (46 x 45.7 cm.)
Sheet dimensions: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Very good condition

Few Pop images are more widely recognized than Indiana's LOVE". Originally designed as a Christmas card commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art in 1965, "LOVE" has appeared in prints, paintings, sculptures, banners, rings, tapestries, and stamps. Full of erotic, religious, autobiographical, and political underpinnings—especially when it was co-opted as an emblem of 1960s idealism—"LOVE" is both accessible and complex in meaning. In this color screenprint, Indiana renders the word in warm red, yellow and orange.

Executed in 1996, this work is signed and dated in pencil in the lower right, and numbered 154/200 in the lower left. It measures 24 x 20 inches and is framed and matted, floating in the frame. In overall good condition with no evidence of tears or repairs.

Robert Indiana (American, b. 1928)

Robert Indiana, one of the preeminent figures in American art since the 1960s, has played a central role in the development of assemblage art, hard-edge painting and Pop art. A self-proclaimed “American painter of signs,” Indiana has created a highly original body of work that explores American identity, personal history and the power of abstraction and language, establishing an important legacy that resonates in the work of many contemporary artists who make the written word a central element of their oeuvre. He is most famous for his “Love” paintings and sculptures, first produced in the 1960s. His “LOVE” painting was reproduced on a postage stamp in 1973 and his “LOVE” sculptures are installed in public spaces worldwide.

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