WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF ILEANA SONNABEND AND THE ESTATE OF NINA CASTELLI SUNDELL

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Hurricane

Details

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Hurricane
signed and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 68' (lower left); titled 'HURRICANE' (on the reverse)
solvent transfer, gouache and watercolor on paper
22 5/8 x 29 ¾ in. (57.4 x 75.5 cm.)
Executed in 1968.

Provenance

The Estate of Ileana Sonnabend, acquired directly from the artist
By descent to the present owner

Literature

C. Craft, Robert Rauschenberg, London, 2013, p. 99, no. 80 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Rauschenberg: 25 Dessins 1968, October-November 1968.
Kassel, Orangerie, Documenta 6, June-October 1977, vol. 3, p. 203, no. 4.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel, Robert Rauschenberg: Das zeichnerische Werk, 1949–1979, May-September 1979, p. 130 (illustrated).
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Frankfurt, Städel, Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and London, Tate Gallery, Rauschenberg: Werke 1950–1980, March 1980-June 1981.
New York, Jonathan O'Hara Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg: Transfer Drawings from the 1960s, February-March 2007, no. 25(illustrated).

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Lot Essay

"Rauschenberg's images have been chosen to maintain a condition of pictorial and psychological tensions. Resolution would destroy this tension and the elements chosen never admit the possibility of logical interpretation or elucidation either in themselves or in relation to the things with which they have been combined" (A. Solomon, Robert Rauschenberg, exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York, 1963, n.p.).

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