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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 8, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction | 12 | $****** - ****** | Four Sixes |
paintings
173.3 x 173.3 cm (68.25 x 68.25 in)
oil on canvas
signed and variously inscribed (on the reverse) left: variously inscribed (on the reverse) lower: dated 1964•5 and variously inscribed (on the reverse) right: signed, dated 1964•5 and variously inscribed (on the overlap) and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
The artist
William Katz, New York (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1968)
Acquired from the above in July 1990 by the present owner
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Multiplicity, April - June 1966, no. 12, n.p., illustrated (titled 69)
Paris, Galerie Stadler, Art Objective, April - May 1967, n.p.
San Marino, Palazzo dei congressi, Nuove tecniche d'immagine: Sesta biennale d'arte Repubblica di S. Marino, July - September 1967
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; and Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, Robert Indiana, April - September 1968, no. 15, pp. 29, 48, illustrated
New York, Indiana Place, Robert Indiana, Summer 1971
Austin, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Purchase, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York; and Indiana, Art Center of South Bend, Robert Indiana, September 1977 - July 1978, no. 21, p. 57
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Painting and Sculpture: Selections from the Collection Curated by Bill Katz, May 2007 - January 2008
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion Part Two: The Founding of the Center, 1989-1991, November 2009 - April 2010
West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection, March - September 2022
Ted James Jr., "Art: Pop-Op-Pop...," Women"s Wear Daily , 6 May 1966, p. 24, illustrated
Art Gallery Guide , New York, May 1966, illustrated
Ein Domberger Siebdruck - Kalender: 1969 , Stüttgart, 1968, p. 2, illustrated in color
Elizabeth Sverbeyeff and Sue Nirenberg, "Six in the Arts and How They Live: Robert Indiana," House Beautiful , February 1970, p. 54, illustrated in color (in the artist"s studio)
Exh. Cat, Paris, Galerie Denise Rene, Robert Indiana , 1971, n.p., illustrated
William Katz and Robert Indiana, Robert Indiana: The prints and poster of 1961-1971, New York, 1971, p. 93
Carl Weinhardt Jr., Robert Indiana , New York, 1990, p. 116
Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech , New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 154, 164
Robert Indiana
(1928 - 2018)
Four Sixes
upper: signed and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
left: variously inscribed (on the reverse)
lower: dated 1964•5 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
right: signed, dated 1964•5 and variously inscribed (on the overlap) and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on canvas, in four parts
overall: 68 ¼ by 68 ¼ in. 173.4 by 173.4 cm.
Executed in 1964-65.
