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ROBERT INDIANA Eternal Hexagon.
Color screenprint on off-white Mohawk paper, 1964. 445x408 mm; 17½x16 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 500. Signed, dated and dedicated in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc., New Haven under the supervision of Ives-Sillman, Hamden, with the blind stamp lower right. Published by the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. From Ten Works x Ten Painters. A very good impression.
Provenance: Gifted by the artist, Vinalhaven, Maine, to current owner, private collection, Maine.
The portfolio Ten Works by Ten Painters (also stylized as X + X) was one of the first set of prints to include works after paintings by Pop artists. It was issued by the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford under the direction of curator Samuel Wagstaff, Jr. The screenprints were printed by Ives-Sillman, and included works by contemporaries Stuart Davis, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, George Ortman, Larry Poons, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. The prints in the portfolio were not hand-signed by the artist; the current lot is an extremely scarce, pencil-signed impression by Indiana. Sheehan 33.
