Robert Indiana (1928-2018) - Four seasons LOVE (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter)

Artist: Robert Indiana (1928-2018)
Technique: handmade art carpet tufted from new wool
Signature: Verso with certificate, numbered by hand, signed in print on the certificate.
Robert Indiana 13. 09. 1928 New Castle A group of 4 art carpets. Four seasons LOVE: Spring LOVE Summer LOVE Fall LOVE Winter LOVE Wool multiples - hand tufted. Environmentally friendly and produced without child labour. 2006 With certificate on the back, hand-numbered, printed signature on the certificate. In very good condition. Dimensions: approx. 40 x 40 cm. The manufacture of hand-tufted carpets requires tremendous craftsmanship. Each carpet is made by one tufter from start to finish. The design of the respective carpet is drawn onto the stretched backing fabric and the carpet is subsequently made with select high-quality materials (pure wool) with a high level of craftsmanship. Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark on 13 September 1928, died on 19 May 2018) was a US artist and a central figure in the Pop Art movement. He drew inspiration from advertising signs and claimed: “In America, there are more signs than trees. There are more characters than leaves. I consider myself a painter of the American landscape. ” In his paintings, sculptures, carpets and prints, he imitates and arranges the words and numbers of a variety of signs, including the Phillips 66 gas station logo and the “Yield” traffic sign. He is best known for his 1964 painting “Love”, first produced for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He created a block of the word “Love”, with the “L” and the “O” on top of the ”V” and the “E”, effectively adding his own character into the mix. His “Love” painting was reproduced on a postage stamp in 1973; his “Love” sculptures are installed in public spaces worldwide. Indiana moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the Pop Art movement. In doing so, he used a distinctive visual language that drew on approaches from commercial art and existentialism and gradually turned to what Indiana calls “sculptural poems”. He had solo exhibitions in more than 40 museums and galleries worldwide. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including: the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands; Carnegie Institute, Detroit Institute of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Los Angeles County Museum, California, among many others. With numbered objects, you will receive one copy from that edition. The number of the copy you will receive may differ from that shown in the photos.