Lot Essay
‘My fascination with images … is based on the complex interlocking of disparate visual facts … that have no respect for grammar.’
– Robert Rauschenberg
– Robert Rauschenberg
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Curtain Call [Anagram (A Pun)]
Details
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Curtain Call [Anagram (A Pun)]
signed and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 98' (lower left); titled 'CURTAIN CALL' (on the reverse)
inkjet pigment transfer on polylaminate
97 ½ x 61in. (247.7 x 154.9cm.)
Executed in 1998
Curtain Call [Anagram (A Pun)]
signed and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 98' (lower left); titled 'CURTAIN CALL' (on the reverse)
inkjet pigment transfer on polylaminate
97 ½ x 61in. (247.7 x 154.9cm.)
Executed in 1998
Provenance
Private Collection, Belgium.
Lawrence Rubin / Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.
Lawrence Rubin / Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.
Exhibited
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Rauschenberg, 2004, no. 88 (illustrated in colour, p. 196).
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