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Robert IndianaLove Is God2014
2014
$12,500
£9,579.74
€11,010.22
CA$17,556.86
A$19,649.37
CHF 10,285.74
MX$238,704.23
NOK 130,602.80
SEK 123,246.05
DKK 82,155.65
About the Item
Robert Indiana
Love Is God, 2014
Silkscreen on 2 ply Rising Museum Board
32 × 32 inches
Hand signed and numbered 33/50 in graphite pencil on the front
Unframed
One of the most profound Robert Indiana silkscreens ever created; one of his last works done in 2014. This silkscreen is on museum board, pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of only 50. Accompanied by a COA from the publisher as well as a COA from the gallery. This print is based upon the eponymous original painting on canvas: it's actually more subversive than what it appears. Robert Indiana described the origin of that painting as follows:
"Well it all started probably a long, long time ago, and it comes, of course, from a spiritual rather than an erotic beginning. When I was a child I was exposed to and involved in the Christian Science church, and all Christian Science churches are very prim and pure. Most of them have no decoration whatsoever, no stained glass windows, no carvings, no paintings, and, in fact, only one thing appears in a Christian Science church, and that’s a small, very tasteful inscription in gold, usually, over the platform where the readers conduct the service. And that inscription is God Is Love.
Well a few years ago, in the mid-sixties [Larry Aldrich] . . . had the inspiration to expose his rather large private collection to a broader public. There happened to be a building available for this in Ridgefield; it had been a grocery store back in the early nineteenth century . . . this grocery store, later on, some time in the 1920s, became a Christian Science church. Then the Christian Scientists wanted better facilities so they built themselves a new church next door.
I was at a party at Andy Warhol’s old Factory, and Aldrich was there. I didn’t know him very well, but well enough to confront him. I was a little piqued because he had no Indiana, and I thought he should. I told him that an excellent opportunity was forthcoming for a special Indiana, because since he was making his museum in a former Christian Science church, I had an idea to do a special painting just for him. And that was the reversal of the religious motto. My painting read Love Is God instead.
. . . Although the Love Is God canvas bears no relationship to what now has become a logo, it started me thinking about the subject of love. I had been at one time employed as a typist for the man who was to become the bishop of California—then Dean [James A.] Pike, later Bishop Pike, and now in some area of sainthood, I suppose. He, of course, was greatly involved with the subject of love, particularly from an ecclesiastic standpoint.
All these things kind of came together. I like to work on a square canvas, since the way I put the letters down, it is the most economical, the most dynamic way to put four letters on a square canvas..."
That is how the LOVE came about . .
- Creator:Robert Indiana (1928 - 2018, American)
- Creation Year:2014
- Dimensions:Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)
- Medium:
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- Condition:In excellent, original condition.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213050102
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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