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Robert IndianaDecade: Autoportrait 1969 /// Pop Art Abstract Art Robert Indiana Minimalism1997
1997
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About the Item
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, 1928-2018)
Title: "Decade: Autoportrait 1969"
Portfolio: The American Dream
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1997
Medium: Original Screenprint on Coventry paper
Limited edition: 395, (there were also 30 artist's proofs)
Printer: Marco Fine Arts Contemporary Atelier, El Segundo, CA
Publisher: Marco Fine Arts Contemporary Atelier, El Segundo, CA
Sheet size: 22" x 17"
Image size: 14" x 14"
Condition: Some minor scuffing. In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Düsseldorf, Germany. Comes from Indiana's 1997 "The American Dream" book portfolio of thirty screenprints. Printed in two colors: yellow and black. Text on verso of the following work as issued.
Robert Indiana's 1997 black leather-covered book portfolio "The American Dream" was printed and published with 30 screenprints: 6 loose each signed and numbered and 24 bound not signed and numbered, as issued. Forward by Susan Ryan, text by Michael McKenzie and poems by Robert Creeley. The book was issued within a white cardboard packing box with red and black lettering.
The image is based off Indiana's 1982 screenprint edition "Decade: Autoportrait 1969, V/H", (Sheehan No. 124, page 70), which is related to his 1980 "Decade: Autoportaits, Vinalhaven Suite" series, (Sheehan No. 114-123, page 66-69). It is also related to his 1977, 72" x 72", oil on canvas painting entitled "Decade: Autoportrait 1969". Here the familiar Indiana icons and forms leap out at you: the star, the altered circle, the numbers, the block lettering, lettered name of the artist. The self-portrait documents the artist's move from the Bowery (note the arrow directs us to 'leave' Skid Row) to Vinalhaven, Maine an island of granite in the Penobscot Bay.
Biography:
Robert Indiana was born on September 13, 1928 named Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana, and was adopted as an infant by Earl Clark and Carmen Watters. After his parents divorced, he relocated to Indianapolis to live with his father so he could attend Arsenal Technical High School (1942–1946), from which he graduated as valedictorian of his class. After serving for three years in the United States Army Air Forces, Indiana studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1949–1953), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (summer 1953) and Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art (1953–1954). He returned to the United States in 1954 and settled in New York City. In New York, Indiana's lover Ellsworth Kelly, whom he met in 1956, helped him find a loft on Coenties Slip. On Coenties Slip he met neighboring artists like Jack Youngerman, Agnes Martin and Cy Twombly, with whom he shared his studio for a time. Indiana's career took off in the early 1960s after Alfred H. Barr, Jr., bought The American Dream, 1 for the Museum of Modern Art.
In 1964, Indiana moved from Coenties Slip to a five-story building at Spring Street and the Bowery. In 1969, he began renting the upstairs of the mansarded Victorian-style Odd Fellows Hall named "The Star of Hope" in the island town of Vinalhaven, Maine, as a seasonal studio from the photographer Eliot Elisofon. Half a century earlier, Marsden Hartley had made his escape to the same island. When Elisofon died in 1973, Indiana bought the lodge for $10,000 from his estate. He moved in full-time when he lost his lease on the Bowery in 1978. Indiana grew reclusive in his final years. He died on May 19, 2018, at his home in Vinalhaven, Maine, of respiratory failure at the age of 89. One day before his death, a lawsuit was filed over claims that his caretaker had isolated him from family and friends, and was marketing unauthorized reproductions of his works.
- Creator:Robert Indiana (1928 - 2018, American)
- Creation Year:1997
- Dimensions:Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Saint Augustine, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU121211881242
Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana's work evolved into hard-edged graphic images of words, logos and typographic forms, earning him a reputation as one of the country's leading contemporary artists.
Indiana is known for using public signs and symbols with altered lettering to make stark and challenging visual statements. In his prints, paintings and constructions, he gave new meaning to basic words like Eat, Die and Love. Using them in bold block letters in vivid colors, he enticed his viewers to look at the commonplace from a new perspective. One indication of his success was the appearance of his immensely popular multi-colored Love on a United States postage stamp in 1973.
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