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

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

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Details

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Dowery
signed and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 68' (lower edge); titled 'DOWERY' (on the reverse)
solvent transfer, watercolor, colored pencil and graphite on paper
22 5/8 x 29 7/8 in. (57.4 x 75.8 cm.)
Executed in 1968.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Rauschenberg: 25 Dessins 1968, October-November 1968.
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, p. 81, no. 233 (illustrated).
New York, Jonathan O'Hara Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg: Transfer Drawings from the 1960s, February-March 2007, no. 21 (illustrated).

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Please note there is additional exhibition history for this work.

Lot Essay

“Robert Rauschenberg lived and worked in a whirlwind of images. He was the wind itself. No American artist before or since has been so gracefully at ease with the multiplicity and diversity of visual experience around us, nor so avid for it”
(Robert Storr quoted in Selections from the Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2011, p. 14).

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