Decorative Fall Love Art Rug by Robert Indiana, 2006

Robert Indiana decorative LOVE art rug in the ‘FALL’ edition of ambers, reds and browns.
Indiana’s LOVE motifs were created in a range of colours to echo the colours of the seasons of the year and made in hand tufted wool under exclusive license for galerie-f, Krakenburg, Germany starting in 2006. The rugs were hand-made, dyed and inked and then hand clipped and carved to give an almost 3D like effect – which you can see in the pictures where it looks like you could actually reach out and touch the surface. It’s a wonderful design and the motif in his original paintings has been used for many decorative items including prints, rugs, pottery and clothing.
Biography
Robert Indiana was an American Pop artist whose work drew inspiration from signs, billboards, and commercial logos. He is best known for his series of LOVE paintings, which employed bold and colourful letterforms to spell out the word “love.” “Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the love generation and hippies,” he once explained. “It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.”
Born Robert Earl Clark on September 13, 1928 in New Castle, IN, he adopted the name of his home state after serving in the US military. Indiana went on to receive his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954. Following the advice of his friend Ellsworth Kelly, the artist relocated to New York, setting up a studio in the Coenties Slip neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. It was here that Indiana became acquainted with a number of prominent artists, including Agnes Martin, Jack Youngerman, and James Rosenquist. Over the following decades his work became increasingly popular, with both his LOVE and HOPE motifs transformed into a number of public sculptures.
In September 2013, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened “Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE,” the artist’s first retrospective in New York. Indiana died on May 19, 2018 in Vinalhaven, ME. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., among others.
The item is in very good condition and has the manufacturer's label hand-numbered '208' attached to the reverse.