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Monarchy

1969/1981

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A 60 by 50 inch black canvas with the title, Monarchy, painted in beige stenciled letters across the bottom. Above is a circle, with the Union Jack in the center, surrounded by a black ring with beige outlines. inside the ring is the beige stenciled text "The King is dead. Long live the Queen."

Monarchy

1969/1981

Oil on canvas

60 × 50 in. (152.4 × 127 cm)

 

Photo: Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery, New York; Artwork: © Star of Hope Foundation, Vinalhaven, Maine

Monarchy
"My First Spring in Scotland," written by Robert Clark for Alison Balfour, published in Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)

"My First Spring in Scotland," written by Robert Clark for Alison Balfour, published in Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)

Description

I’m fascinated with royalty because I came into contact with it briefly while I was in the country [Scotland]. At the university the very first week a little Scottish girl came up to me and said “You’re English aren’t you?” I was so pleased that I had not been taken for an American and we struck up a friendship and after that I spent weekends at her estate outside Edinburgh. She happened to be the great-niece of Lord Balfour.

— Robert Indiana

 

Adrian Dannatt, "Love, Pop, Words and More," Art Newspaper (February 2003), p. 16.