Robert Indiana (1928-2018) - Numbers (No.1)
Technique: Silkscreen / Serigraph
Signature: Hand signed
Robert Indiana, Numbers (No. 1) , 1968
Screenprint in color, 64. 9 x 49. 8 cm, signed and numbered, good condition.
Provenance: Private collection Netherlands, private collection Berlin
Catalog raisonné: Robert Indiana Prints, A catalog Raisonné, 1951 - 1991, 46th - 55th Edition: 125. Signed and numbered. Printer: Domberger KG, Bonlanden Stuttgart and Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf.
Issued in a linen-covered portfolio case. Each screen print, including the one offered here, comes in a cardboard folder with a poem and a black/white illustration of the number included.
The Numbers Portfolio was created in collaboration between Robert Creeley and Robert Indiana. Creeley's poems are inspired by the Numbers paintings that Indiana had created years earlier.
biography
The painter, graphic artist and sculptor Robert Indiana is considered the most important representative of signal art.
Robert Indiana, actually Robert Clark, was born in 1928 in New Castle, Indiana. The boy is adopted by the Clark couple immediately after birth and spends his childhood near Indiana. From 1958 Robert Clark called himself Robert Indiana.
Indiana moves into a studio on Coenties Slip on the Lower East River. Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Jack Youngerman, Ann Wilson, Charles Hinman and Fred Mitchell also live here - these artists feel united in their rejection of gestural Abstract Expressionism.
Ellsworth Kelly in particular is instrumental in encouraging Robert Indiana (Robert Clark) to take this path. The young artist soon painted his first pictures in the strict Hard Edge style (1957) .
In 1960, Robert Indiana made a groundbreaking discovery: he found stencils such as those used to label shipping crates and used them to create the stencil-like font as the leitmotif of his works. Robert Indiana's characteristic "signal art style" emerged and soon also applied to other sources such as signs or jukeboxes. In this way, Robert Indiana also approaches pop art.
In the 1960s, Robert Indiana became extremely successful. His “LOVE” motif in particular became a true icon of those years and was even translated into a monumental sculpture in 1970.
Works by Robert Indiana can be viewed in important international museums, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne or the New York Museum of Modern Art. Robert Indiana lived and worked on the island of Vinalhaven until his death in 2018 Maine.
The graphic is currently flat and has never been rolled. It will be rolled briefly for shipping and should be stored flat again upon arrival. Please note the relatively high shipping costs, as the graphic must be additionally insured due to the high value of the object.
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Technique: Silkscreen / Serigraph
Signature: Hand signed
Robert Indiana, Numbers (No. 1) , 1968
Screenprint in color, 64. 9 x 49. 8 cm, signed and numbered, good condition.
Provenance: Private collection Netherlands, private collection Berlin
Catalog raisonné: Robert Indiana Prints, A catalog Raisonné, 1951 - 1991, 46th - 55th Edition: 125. Signed and numbered. Printer: Domberger KG, Bonlanden Stuttgart and Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf.
Issued in a linen-covered portfolio case. Each screen print, including the one offered here, comes in a cardboard folder with a poem and a black/white illustration of the number included.
The Numbers Portfolio was created in collaboration between Robert Creeley and Robert Indiana. Creeley's poems are inspired by the Numbers paintings that Indiana had created years earlier.
biography
The painter, graphic artist and sculptor Robert Indiana is considered the most important representative of signal art.
Robert Indiana, actually Robert Clark, was born in 1928 in New Castle, Indiana. The boy is adopted by the Clark couple immediately after birth and spends his childhood near Indiana. From 1958 Robert Clark called himself Robert Indiana.
Indiana moves into a studio on Coenties Slip on the Lower East River. Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Jack Youngerman, Ann Wilson, Charles Hinman and Fred Mitchell also live here - these artists feel united in their rejection of gestural Abstract Expressionism.
Ellsworth Kelly in particular is instrumental in encouraging Robert Indiana (Robert Clark) to take this path. The young artist soon painted his first pictures in the strict Hard Edge style (1957) .
In 1960, Robert Indiana made a groundbreaking discovery: he found stencils such as those used to label shipping crates and used them to create the stencil-like font as the leitmotif of his works. Robert Indiana's characteristic "signal art style" emerged and soon also applied to other sources such as signs or jukeboxes. In this way, Robert Indiana also approaches pop art.
In the 1960s, Robert Indiana became extremely successful. His “LOVE” motif in particular became a true icon of those years and was even translated into a monumental sculpture in 1970.
Works by Robert Indiana can be viewed in important international museums, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne or the New York Museum of Modern Art. Robert Indiana lived and worked on the island of Vinalhaven until his death in 2018 Maine.
The graphic is currently flat and has never been rolled. It will be rolled briefly for shipping and should be stored flat again upon arrival. Please note the relatively high shipping costs, as the graphic must be additionally insured due to the high value of the object.
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