$20,000
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (1925-2008) Slipper, 1995 Vegetable dye transfer on paper Signed and dated lower left 55 by 37 inches, framed EXHIBITION HISTORY 2014: 'Robert Rauschenberg, The Fulton Street Studio', Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York 2013: 'Robert Rauschenberg: Jammers', Gagosian Gallery, London 2013: 'Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962', MoCA, Los Angeles Request a Condition Report ARTIST BIO Robert Rauschenberg’s enthusiasm for popular culture and, with his contemporary Jasper Johns, his rejection of the angst and seriousness of the Abstract Expressionists led him to search for a new way of painting. A prolific innovator of techniques and mediums, he used unconventional art materials ranging from dirt and house paint to umbrellas and car tires. In the early 1950s, Rauschenberg was already gaining a reputation as the art world’s enfant terrible with works such as Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953), for which he requested a drawing (as well as permission) from Willem de Kooning, and proceeded to rub away the image until only ghostly marks remained on the paper. By 1954, Rauschenberg completed his first three-dimensional collage paintings—he called them Combines—in which he incorporated discarded materials and mundane objects to explore the intersection of art and life. “I think a picture is more like the real world when it’s made out of the real world,” he said. In 1964 he became the first American to win the International Grand Prize in Paintin
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2016-04-30
