Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
INDIANA, ROBERT. Group of 11 postcards and greeting cards, each Inscribed and Signed, "R Indiana" or "bob," to various recipients, each on a reproduction of one of his artworks featuring the word "LOVE" or "NOEL." Three with 8-cent "LOVE" postage stamp cancelled on first day of issue, January 26, 1973. Each 6 1/2x6 1/2 inches or smaller, most on folded sheet forming four pages. Vp, 1968-2016
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"18. XII. '68 / For / Michael & Patricia Scott / Greetings / from / the / Bowery," on card featuring NOEL (1968). [New York], 18 December 1968 • "Mr & Mrs. Love-- / Wonder if your mailbox / has survived all those hard / Indiana winters," on postcard featuring Imperial Love (1966). Vinalhaven, 18 March 1986 • "Star of Hope / Vinalhaven / 2006 / LO / VE / bob," on card featuring photograph of Santa standing beside snow-covered blue "LOVE" sculpture. Vinalhaven, 2006 • "2009 / A happy New Year / & / A full alphabet / LO / VE . . . bob," on card featuring Classic Earth LOVE (1996) and with a mounted photograph showing him at home standing before his alphabet sculpture with letters rearranged. Np, 2009 • "Dear Jim / My first / monumental LO / VE sculp- / ture in my old home- / town. Don't get back / often. I lived in 21 / different houses there. / It is about 1 mile from / John Dillinger's grave," on postcard showing his 1970 LOVE sculpture at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Vinalhaven, 16 September 2010 • "NOEL / bob," on New Year card featuring BABY LOVE (1996) and with a mounted photograph showing Indiana Obelisk (2002) at the Indiana State Museum. Np, 2010 • "LO / VE," on postcard featuring Monumental LOVE (1970). Np, April 2016 • "LO / VE," on card featuring LOVE (1965). Np, 2016 • "Star [asterisk] of Hope / Vinalhaven / LO / VE," on card featuring NOEL (1968). Vinalhaven, 2016 • "[Asterisk] The / Star / of / Hope / Vinalhaven / LO / VE," on a postcard featuring LOVE (1966). Vinalhaven, 2016 • "LO / VE," on a postcard featuring LOVE (1966). Np, nd.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.