Jun 08, 2023 - Sale 2640

Sale 2640 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ROBERT INDIANA
Eternal Hexagon.

Color screenprint on off-white Mohawk paper, 1964. 445x408 mm; 17 1/2x16 inches, full margins. Edition of 500. 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. Sheehan 33.

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.