Robert Indiana - LOVE From The Book of Love: Art & Poetry Booklet, 1996

LOVE From The Book of Love: Art & Poetry Booklet, 1996

Artist: Robert Indiana (1928, New Castle, Indiana – 2018, Vinalhaven, Maine)
Medium: Screenprint in colours                                                                                        Edition : Artist's Proof — from the edition of 10 AP, aside from the main edition of 200
Dimensions: 60.7 × 50.8 cm
Signature : Titled and numbered in pencil                                                                  Publisher : American Image Art, New York — blindstamp present Series: The Book of Love: Art & Poetry Booklet

Description:

LOVE (1996) is one of the most culturally loaded images in the history of American art — and one of the most perfectly resolved. Robert Indiana's four-letter stack, with its tilted "O" and compressed sans-serif letterforms, has achieved a degree of recognition surpassing almost any other graphic invention of the twentieth century: reproduced on postage stamps, cast in sculpture from New York to Tokyo, adopted by a global culture as shorthand for an entire emotional category. This screenprint in colours, published by American Image Art, New York, as part of The Book of Love: Art & Poetry Booklet in 1996, presents the image in the print medium for which Indiana's flat, graphic language is most ideally suited.

The screenprint process — with its capacity for absolute flatness of colour, total graphic precision, and the luminous intensity of layered inks — reproduces Indiana's visual vocabulary without loss: the image is not a reproduction of a painting but a work conceived for and executed in the print medium, each colour field laid down with the same directness and authority as a painted canvas. The composition needs no background, no context, no explanation — it simply is what it is, and what it is has proven inexhaustible.

This impression is an artist's proof — drawn from the edition of just 10 AP produced alongside the main edition of 200 — titled and numbered in pencil, and bearing the American Image Art blindstamp. Artist's proofs, produced in the smallest quantities and traditionally reserved by the artist, are consistently considered the most desirable impressions within any edition. Presented unframed with full margins on wove paper.

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FAQ 

Is this an original Robert Indiana print? Yes — an original screenprint in colours on wove paper, titled and numbered in pencil, from the artist's proof edition of 10.

What is an artist's proof? An artist's proof (A.P.) is an impression produced outside the main numbered edition — traditionally reserved by the artist and produced in the smallest quantities. This impression is from an edition of just 10 A.P., alongside a main edition of 200.

What is the edition size? 10 artist's proofs plus a main edition of 200 — this impression is from the artist's proof series.

Who published this work? American Image Art, New York — whose blindstamp is present on the sheet.

What series does this work belong to? The Book of Love: Art & Poetry Booklet — a 1996 publication by American Image Art, New York.

Is the work framed? No — sold unframed with full margins.

Do you ship internationally? Yes — worldwide, with museum-grade flat packaging, full insurance, and shipment tracking.