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ROBERT INDIANA Die Deutsche Vier (The German Four).
Color paper collage mounted on illustration board, 1968. 760x760 mm; 30x30 inches. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "FOR DOCUMENTA IV" in pencil, lower margin. With Indiana's original color paper collage color swatch for the project, 165x50 mm; 6½x2 inches, signed, titled and inscribed "FOR DOCUMENTA SERIGRAPH" in ink, lower recto. With the artist's typed address label, verso, and the typed address label for Andreas Vowinckel, Director, Documenta-Foundation, Cologne, verso.
Published: Sheehan, Robert Indiana Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1951-1991, New York, 1991, page 31 (the color screenprint illustrated).
Provenance: Gifted by the artist, Vinalhaven, Maine, to current owner, private collection, Maine.
This is the color paper collage maquette that Indiana (1928-2018) designed for the same-titled color screenprint, printed in an edition of 100 signed and numbered impressions, for 4 documenta, the fourth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition, held from June 27 to October 6, 1968 in Kassel, West Germany. This important exhibition showcased contemporary work from artists that included Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Jim Dine, Lucio Fontana, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barnett Newman, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and Indiana himself, among many others. It was one of a handful of seminal exhibitions that gave the Pop Art movement further international attention and significantly raised its popularity.
