Dorothea Rockburne (B. 1932)
Drawings from the Collection of Irving Stenn
Dorothea Rockburne (B. 1932)

Tenebrae

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Dorothea Rockburne (B. 1932)
Tenebrae
signed, dedicated and dated 'for Bob LOVE DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE XMAS 60' (on the reverse)
graphite on paper
19 x 25 in. (48.3 x 63.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1960.
Provenance
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York
Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Selections from the Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, November-December 2011, p. 275 (illustrated).

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“Starting in the late ’60s, I think that drawing took a new form…For the most part, but not always... drawing had been a way of pre-thinking the structure in a painting. But drawing is not the orphan child of painting; it is a deep, material way of working” (D. Rockburne, quoted in H. Moss, “Returning, Again, to American Drawing in the 1960s,” New York Times, 27 January 2016).

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