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Robert Indiana
"To Draw a Straight Line (Book of LOVE)" silkscreen print by Robert Indiana

1996

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£906.84
€1,061.63
CA$1,675.77
A$1,885.39
CHF 998.96
MX$23,282.24
NOK 12,246.14
SEK 11,766.85
DKK 7,919.09
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"To Draw a Straight Line (Book of LOVE)" silkscreen print from a portfolio of 12 original poems and 12 original prints by artist Robert Indiana. Edition 58/200. The prints in the portfolio were created by Indiana as illustrations for his own love poems, written circa 1958 to 1973. Each poem has a highly raised embossment of LOVE just below the title and is hand-initialed in pencil by Robert Indiana. The poem reads: "To Draw a Straight Line / To draw a straight line / when the skin yields like love / Beneath the glyph's caress - / To entice tatoo astray: / Is improbable artistry. / The flesh coronates itself Art. / To indraw the curved line / When the flesh balks ire / Foursquare the nerves deploy - / To resist the arc's trespass: / Is illogical progression. / The flesh knows its own design. / To bedraw a line to glory / When the skin reads to Hell / Corrupt the quilt of deceit / To confound the oracle: / Is indubitable folly. / The flesh insists to be the Fool."
  • Creator:
    Robert Indiana (1928 - 2018, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1996
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 27 in (68.58 cm)Width: 23 in (58.42 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Boca Raton, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU155429469092

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