Mise en ligne par • Eliane •Robert Indiana's iconic LOVE image, with its tilted letter O, is among the best known of his subjects. He conceived it in 1964 and then cast it into sculptural form. You can find several versions of it in locations as diverse as Sixth Avenue in NYC, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Taipei, Kyoto, Singapore, Bilbao, Vancouver, ... And for a few days, this little 1966 version was standing in front of the Christie's building on the Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan.
If you wanted to purchase it, you've just missed it: it was sold! for $1,161,000 at yesterday's Post War & Contemporary auction. The entire morning session realized $47,981,700, while the afternoon one brought $34,607,650.
As for the little Roy Lichtenstein I had my eyes on? Which had the perfect size and would have been exactly what I needed above my sofa? Well, I have no regret: at the last minute, it was not presented at the Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale that took place the day before. That sales realized a mere $348,263,600.
If you are in New York City when one of these very big auctions of the season take place, try to get tickets to assist to the sale. It is a lot of fun to try to understand what happens. You will leave the place a little dizzy from witnessing all those millions change hands at an amazing pace. Plus, trying to distinguish the different species in the fauna attending is even funnier.
