Robert Indiana (1928-2018) - Red Diamond

Robert Indiana, Red Diamond, 1962/1997. No Reserve price!

Screenprint in color on sturdy Velin, 43.2 x 34.2 cm on 55.8 x 43 cm. From an edition of 395. Not signed or numbered.

Provenance: Private collection Netherlands, private collection Berlin.

Condition: Perfect color reproduction. Please examine the photos carefully, they are part of the condition description. Overall a very fresh and beautiful condition.

About
The American Dream is an iconic screenprint portfolio by American Pop Art artist Robert Indiana, published in 1997 in a limited edition of 395 copies. The work brings together 30 powerful prints, including six signed sheets, visually condensing Indiana's central themes such as love, identity, consumption, patriotism, and American society.
The stylistically typical, color-rich compositions with typography, numerals, and symbols make the portfolio a milestone of late Pop Art and a coveted collectible on the international art market. The edition was produced by MFA Contemporary Atelier in California, further complemented by artist, publisher, and museum proofs.

Biography
The painter, graphic artist, and sculptor Robert Indiana is regarded as the most important representative of Sign Art.
Robert Indiana, born Robert Clark in 1928 in New Castle, Indiana. The boy is adopted shortly after birth by the Clark couple and spends his childhood near Indiana. From 1958 he calls himself Robert Indiana.
Indiana takes up a studio at Coenties Slip on the Lower East Side. Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Jack Youngerman, Ann Wilson, Charles Hinman, and Fred Mitchell also live here — these artists share a common stance in their rejection of gestural Abstract Expressionism.
Particularly Ellsworth Kelly profoundly influences Robert Indiana (Robert Clark) in this path. The young artist soon paints his first works in the hard-edge style (1957).
In 1960 Robert Indiana makes a forward-looking discovery: he finds stencils used for labeling shipping boxes, and from them creates the stencil-like lettering as a leitmotif of his works. The characteristic "Sign Art" style of Robert Indiana emerges and soon also references other sources such as signage or jukeboxes. Thus Robert Indiana approaches Pop Art.
In the 1960s Robert Indiana becomes highly successful. Especially his "LOVE" motif becomes a true icon of that era and in 1970 is even transformed into a monumental sculpture.
Works by Robert Indiana can be seen in major international museums, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, or the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Robert Indiana lived and worked on the island of Vinalhaven in Maine until his death in 2018.