LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil, metal, rope, wood, fabric, plastic buttons, paper, graphite and sand on canvas

Measurements:

102.01 in. (259.10 cm.) (height) by 60.00 in. (152.40 cm.) (width) by 10.51 in. (26.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery,. Rauschenberg , November - December 1961. Los Angeles, Dwan Gallery,. Robert Rauschenberg , March 1962. New York, Leo Castelli Gallery,. Group Show , September - October 1962. Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art,. The 28 th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting , January - March 1963, no. 112, illustrated . New York, The Jewish Museum,. Robert Rauschenberg , March - May 1963, no. 41. Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, . Contemporary Art: Dialogue between the East and the West , June - August 1969, p. 63, illustrated. New York, Sidney Janis Gallery,. String and Rope , January 1970, n.p., no. 14, illustrated . Houston, The Menil Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum, and The Museum of Fine Arts; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; and Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum,. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective , February 1998 - March 1999

Literature:

James R. Mellow, ed., "New York: The Art World,". Arts Yearbook 7 , New York, 1964, p. 72, illustrated in color . David Whitney, ed., . Leo Castelli: Ten Years , New York, 1967, n.p., illustrated (in installation at Leo Castelli Gallery, 1962). Joachim Jäger,. Das zivilisierte Bild: Robert Rauschenberg und seine Combine-Paintings der Jahre 1960-1962 , Vienna, 1999, p. 133, pl. 42, illustrated in color. Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (and travelling), . Robert Rauschenberg: Combines , 2005, p. 179, pl. 156, illustrated in color and p. 307 (text

Provenance:

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC #RR D-112). Victor and Sally Ganz, New York (acquired from the above in May 1964). Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1997