In 1997, Indiana released “The American Dream” print portfolio, featuring limited edition versions of the series in addition to a selection of his other famous motifs. In this image he uses Ruiz, Picasso’s middle name and his life-dates overlaid with bright text and imagery. Robert Indiana’s Picasso was painted during the peak of the artist’s acclaimed career as one of the preeminent figures in Post-War American art. A quintessential example of the artist’s Pop compositions, here Indiana has rendered a series of hard-edged geometries with brilliant colors to commemorate the illustrious career of Pablo Picasso. Through his keen use of signs, numbers, and letters, Indiana pays homage to the legendary Modern masters, relying on his own distinctive visual language that he refined since the early 1960s.