Lot 172
172
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Property from the Collection of Susan Weil

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Details
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Untitled (Elongated X-form)
printed paper, engravings, graphite, glue and paper collage on paperboard
14 x 5 1/8 in. (35.5 x 13 cm.)
Executed circa 1952.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York and Soho, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Soho, Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, June 1991-August 1992, p. 125, pl. 63 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

"In North Africa, Rauschenberg and Twombly empathized with the primitive modes of life and the raw but beautiful materials found in the native marketplaces and countryside outside Morocco" (W. Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, p. 112).

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