Robert IndianaAmerican, 1928–2018666
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “666” now? Collection: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Whether it is on view today is unknown.
New Haven, United States
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 2008.19.1233
In the catalog
Sources
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Image: Yale University Art Gallery — Image: Yale University Art Gallery · In Copyright
In the life of Robert Indiana
The whole life1964
Break-up with Kelly and the birth of LOVE
After parting from Ellsworth Kelly, Indiana reworks an earlier, cruder version of the piece (according to the art historian Susan Elizabeth Ryan, in 1964 it was a far more explicit four-letter word beginning with F, its second letter, a U, tilted to the right) into the famous stacked LOVE with its tilted O, and sends the first cards to friends and acquaintances in the art world. Its red, blue and green are thought to nod to Kelly’s colours, and the relationship was not made public until 2013.
1964
Star of Warhol’s film “Eat”
He plays the lead in Andy Warhol’s 45-minute film Eat, in which he eats a mushroom.
1964
Moves to Spring Street and the Bowery
He leaves Coenties Slip for a five-storey building at Spring Street and the Bowery.
1966
LOVE exhibition at the Stable Gallery
For his solo show devoted to the LOVE series, the first silkscreen of the image is printed as the gallery’s exhibition poster.
27 June 1968 – 6 October 1968
Exhibition: 4. documenta
