LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and silkscreen ink on canvas

Measurements:

84.02 in. (213.40 cm.) (height) by 60.00 in. (152.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 1963 on the reverse

Exhibited:

Paris, Ileana Sonnabend, Rauschenberg, February - March 1963, n.p. New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg, October - November 1963. Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'histoire, Art du 20ème Siècle, June - September 1973. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Rauschenberg: The Silkscreen Paintings 1962-64, December 1990 - March 1991, cat. no. 41, fig. 18, p. 60, illustrated in color and p. 145, illustrated

Literature:

Mildred Constantine, "Visit New York", Art in America, 52 (June 1964), p. 128, illustrated. Andrew Forge, Rauschenberg, New York, 1969, pp. 207 and 227, illustrated. Lucy R. Lippard, Lawrence Alloway, Nancy Marmer, and Nicolas Calas, Pop Art, New York, 1970, fig. 149, p. 162, illustrated. Andrew Forge, Rauschenberg, New York, 1972, p. 81. Carl Becker, ed., A Survey of European Civilization, Boston, 1972, p. 944, illustrated. Calvin Tomkins, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time, New York, 1980, p. 305. Roni Feinstein, "Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg's Art, 1949-1964", Ph.D. dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1990, p. 405

Provenance:

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# 160). Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1963