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de Sarthe Gallery is pleased to exhibit, for the first time in Hong Kong, three major paintings by Robert Indiana titled ‘Decade Autoportrait’. Executed between 1972-1977 these rare works are the largest from a series of ten paintings in three different sizes (24 x 24 inches/61 x 61 cm, 48 x 48 inches/122 x 122 cm and 72 x 72 inches/183 x 183 cm) which Indiana exhibited for the first time at the Galerie Denise René in New York in 1972. Each painting in the series follows a similar structure: a large “1” dominates the background and its extremities stretch from edge to edge. Similarly, a large …