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Robert Indiana, Numbers (Sheehan, 111), 1980

Name: Robert Indiana, Numbers (Sheehan, 111), 1980
Brand: Robert Indiana
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Robert Indiana

Numbers (Sheehan, 111), 1980

Silkscreen in colors on off-white Arches paper. Pencil Signed. Numbered. Dated. Unframed.

32 × 39 in

81.3 × 99.1 cm

Edition 23/250

Rarely to market, this large, stunning 1980 Robert Indiana silkscreen "Numbers" features eight numbers shown in a reflecting pool. According to the catalogue raisonne, "the composition for this work relates to a private commission that Indiana received to create a series of ten eight foot high painted aluminum numbers. Completed in 1983 and in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana's monumental numbers are here shown in a reflecting pool." This dazzling print is reproduced in the Robert Indiana print catalogue raisonne as a full page plate (Sheehan, 111, page 63).
Measurements:
32 x 39 inches (sheet)
31 3/8 x 38 5/8 inches (image)

Robert Indiana, best known for his iconic “LOVE” series, lived in 21 different homes by his 17th birthday, and credits his ongoing fascination with numbers to his childhood spent moving between a flurry of addresses and zip codes. “Each one is loaded with multiple references and significances,” he said of his numbers. Indiana believed that each number has its own personality and symbolism, with one representing birth and zero representing death, and the numbers in between symbolizing periods from childhood through adulthood. He also attached significance to the colors he chose for his numbers, favoring red for one and four to convey the vibrancy of birth and the fiery period of adolescence, and grey for zero to convey a waning sense of time at the close of one’s life. For Indiana, many of these numbers also held personal connections, such as the highway routes and building numbers that were important to him.