1997
Edition Size: From the open edition as issued
Dimensions: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm) diameter, each, unframed cm
Signed In Plate
Condition: Excellent
As part of the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective exhibition in 1997, the Guggenheim Museum produced this highly-regarded set of screenprints featuring Rauschenberg’s photographs on printed plates. With the artist’s printed signature (verso), each plate measures 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) in diameter, unframed, from the open edition as issued.
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Robert Rauschenberg, an American born in 1925, started producing painterly prints in the early 1960s that contained pictures he cut out of magazines and newspapers. Nearly ten years prior, he had created pieces he dubbed “Combines,” which are fusions of painting and sculpture that embrace the noise of daily life and contrast the solitary canvases of abstract expressionism. The ordinary was also introduced in Rauschenberg’s prints in a variety of ways, such as the water ring left by a drinking glass, the embossment from a coin, or the traced contour of a cane. By reintroducing representation into the avant-garde, the artist revived a vibrant visual language. “What he invented above all was…a graphic surface that let the world in again,” wrote art historian Leo Steinberg.
