ROBERT INDIANA Love Source: christies.com

Renowned artist Robert Indiana (Robert Indiana), is most famous for his set up in 1960 a sculpture Love, became involved in trial. The artist sued the collector who lives in Monaco, Joao Item (Joao Tovar), stating that Indiana had deceived him. The collector purchased a number of sculptures of Indiana, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the author, but later denied the authenticity of Indiana goods purchased works.

Joao product, he says, purchased 10 sculptures «Prem» («Love "in Sanskrit), John Gilbert (John Gilbert), a longtime business partner Robert Indiana. According to the buyer, in 2009 the work had cost him $ 1.5 million. He intended to sell them at auction Christie's, but the artist said that the sculptures do not have any relation to it, and the accompanying document with his signature and a dedication to "Product" is simply an autograph as a souvenir, and not a certificate of authenticity of these works.

Joao product has already lost a similar case in federal court, and last week appealed to him as the Supreme Court of Knox County, Maine, where 83-year-old artist.
The situation for the collector is complicated by the fact that not so long ago, Indiana won a legal dispute with his former partner John Gilbert. According to the court, Gilbert is now prohibited to disseminate false information that it has anything to do with the artist and his affairs, and that Robert Indiana has anything whatsoever related to the sculptures Prem. The case was heard at the initiative of Gilbert in federal court in Manhattan, and his decision the judge has confirmed that Robert Indiana gave consent to the creation of a sculpture using original Sanskrit characters, but not Latin letters. The judge noted that, according to the artist, the sculpture in the form of the word Prem, written in Latin, "ugly" and "like a refrigerator».

in this matter are still many uncertainties, however, apparently fell victim to the collector of creative and business unresolved conflict between Robert Indiana and the disgraced aide.

Robert Indiana sculpture in the form of the Sanskrit character Prem Source: clancco.com

Robert Indiana sculpture in the form of the word« Prem », written in Latin Source: gothamist.com

According to some publications, Indiana, and Gilbert is really concluded an agreement on the production of sculptures in the form of the Latin letters Prem, moreover, there are even pictures, which captured a number of Indiana with a similar sculpture, but later, for unknown reasons, the artist has decided to terminate the contract and to stop his former partner in any partnership.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: gothamist.com , artinvestment.ru