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Robert IndianaDecade: Autoportrait, 1969 (Sheehan, 78), historic lithograph Signed/N, Framed1973
1973
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Robert Indiana
Decade: Autoportrait, 1969 (Sheehan, 78), 1973
Color lithograph on off white wove paper
Signed and numbered 84/125 in pencil on the front
Frame included:
This work is matted and framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass.
Measurements:
Framed
19 inches (vertical) by 19 inches (horizontal) by 1.5
Print (visible):
12.5 inches by 12.5 inches
This is an uncommon limited edition signed and numbered lithograph (not to be confused with a larger unsigned edition), created in 1973 - when Robert Indiana retrospectively revisited his own life in the year 1969. The late Sixties and early Seventies was one of the most influential eras in the artist's career, and works from that time period are especially desirable. Many are already in major public and institutional collections around the world. This work is called "autoportrait", because it depicts Robert Indiana's self-portrait in words, colors, shapes and numbers, using his language of hard edge geometric abstraction. (As an aside, Robert Indiana called himself a "hard edge" artist and complained that he has always been mis-construed and mis-characterized as a Pop Artist. He felt much more kinship with Ellsworth Kelly than Andy Warhol.) With respect to the colors and imagery of the present work, Indiana has said, " Nine is the number before death and yellow and black is beware danger. ’69 is of course is very conspicuous. And it is the year that I found the Star of Hope, and which is in the middle of the Penobscot Bay and E-L-I is many things. It is Eliot Elisofon. It is Ellen Elisofon, his daughter, who accompanied me to the island from Skowhegan, and I was still, however on Skid Row, which again, is the Bowery.” The words: "Hallelujah Vinalhaven" boldly featured in this lithograph refer to Robert Indiana's discovering his final residence in an idyllic place called "Star of Hope" in Vinalhaven, Maine. The words "Skid Row", as he explains, famously refers to the Bowery in Manhattan - a neighborhood famous for its bums, drugs and down-and-out denizens in the late 1960s - which Indiana left when he moved to Maine. The work also reveals the three letters "IND" in the middle -- to let the viewer know it is autobiographical. This is a very poignant and oxymoronic artwork, as the colors of danger -- black and yellow, and the cliche of Skid Row (always associated with someone down and out in the world), are juxtaposed in contrast to the "Hallelujah", and the hopefulness of Vinalhaven. "Decade: Autoportrait 1969" is fully referenced in the catalogue raisonne of Robert Indiana's prints.
Publisher: Publisher: XXe Siecle, New York and Paris; Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Publisher
Exhibition History: This work has been widely exhibited in major museum and gallery retrospectives over the years. Most recently, another edition of this print was included in the exhibition "The Essential Robert Indiana" at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and it was also featured n a retrospective at the McNay Art Museum in Texas.
Literature: Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Sheehan, 78 (page 50)
This work has been widely exhibited in major museum and gallery retrospectives over the years. Most recently, another edition of this print was included in the show "The Essential Robert Indiana" at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and it was also featured in a retrospective at the McNay Art Museum in Texas.
Publisher: XXe Siecle, New York and Paris;
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Publisher
- Creator:Robert Indiana (1928 - 2018, American)
- Creation Year:1973
- Dimensions:Height: 19 in (48.26 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Very good condition; ships framed.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745216146072
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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