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Artist |
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Robert Indiana |
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Title |
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USA 666, the 6th American dream
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Medium |
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oil on canvas |
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Size |
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105 x 105 in. / 266.7 x 266.7 cm. |
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Year |
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1964 - 1966 |
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Description |
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Robert Indiana (b. 1928)
USA 666, The 6th American Dream
oil on... |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
[Lot 34]
Post War And Contemporary Art Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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Sold For |
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Provenance |
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Acquired from the artist by the present owner
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Exhibition |
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Sao Paulo, Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo, 1967, no. 28.
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Indiana, April-May 1968, p. 28 (illustrated). San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, Robert Indiana, July-August 1968.
Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, Robert Indiana, September 1968.
Austin, University of Texas Art Museum, Robert Indiana, September-November 1977.
Norfolk, Chrysler Museum, Robert Indiana, December 1977-January 1978.
Indiannapolis Museum of Art, Robert Indiana, February-April 1978.
Purchase, Neuberger Museum, Robert Indiana, April-May 1978, p. 16 (illustrated).
South Bend, The Art Center, Robert Indiana, June-July 1978.
Rockland, The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum and Waterville, The Colby College Museum of Art, Indiana's Indianas: A 20 Year Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Robert Indiana, July-December 1982, p. 6 (illustrated in color).
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Wood Works: Constructions by Robert Indiana, May-September 1984, p. 38 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Autoscape, March, 1984.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Constructing America's Identity: Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, June-August 1991.
Lisbon, Fundacao Das Descovertas, Centro Cultural de Belem, The POP 60s: Transatlantic Crossing, September-December 1997, p. 166 (illustrated in color).
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Robert Indiana: Retrospective, 1958-1998, June-November 1998, pp. 68 and 201 (illustrated in color).
Shanghai Art Museum, Robert Indiana, July-August 2002, p. 53 (illustrated in color).
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Indiana, January 2004 (illustrated in color).
New York, C&M Arts, Robert Indiana: Letters, Words and Numbers, February-March 2003, no. 16 (illustrated in color)
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Literature |
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Canadian Art, vol., 23, no. 52 (January 1966), illustrated.
L. Alloway, "Highway Culture: Man at the Wheel," Arts Magazine, vol. 41, no. 4 (February 1967), pp. 28-33.
C. J. Weinhardt, Jr., Robert Indiana, New York, 1990, p. 17 (illustrated in color).
S. E. Ryan, Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 191 (illustrated in color).
J. Pissarro, J. Wilmerding and R. Pincus-Witten, Robert Indiana, New York, 2006, p. 152 (illustrated in color).
This work will be included in the forthcoming Robert Indiana catalogue raisonné
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