Robert Clark Indiana - Spring LOVE

Robert Indiana

13.09.1928 New Castle

Spring LOVE

Wool felted rug – hand-tufted

2006

verso with certificate, handwritten numbered, certificate printed signed.

in very good condition


Size: approx. 40x40 cm

Producing hand-tufted carpets requires great craftsmanship. Each carpet is completed by a single tufter. On the stretched backing fabric, the shape of the resulting carpet is traced and made with high quality and selected, premium materials (pure wool).


Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was an American artist and a central figure of the Pop Art movement. He drew inspiration from advertising signs and claimed: “In America there are more signs than trees. There are more signs than leaves. I consider myself a painter of the American landscape.” In his paintings, sculptures, carpets and prints he imitates and arranges the words and numbers of a variety of signs, including the Phillips 66 gas station logo and the traffic sign “Yield.” He is best known for his 1964 painting “Love,” first created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He created a block out of the word – with the “L” and the “O” on the “V” and the “E” – Indiana effectively inserted his own sign into the mix. His “Love” painting was reproduced on a stamp in 1973; His “Love” sculptures are installed worldwide in public spaces.

Indiana moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the Pop Art movement. He used a distinctive pictorial language that relied on approaches from commercial art and existentialism and gradually turned toward what Indiana calls “sculptural poems.” He has had solo exhibitions in more than 40 museums and galleries worldwide. His works are part of the permanent collections of numerous museums, including: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands; Carnegie Institute, Detroit Institute of Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC; the Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Los Angeles County Museum, California, among many others.

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