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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Robert Rauschenberg, Apology, 1968

Robert Rauschenberg American, 1925-2008

Apology, 1968
solvent transfer, watercolour, gouache and graphite on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches
57.2 x 76.2 cm
signed and dated 'Rauschenberg 68' lower left
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation archive number RRF 68.D073
Included in Sonnabend Paris's legendary Rauschenberg drawing show, the imagery in this work signals the artist's active engagement with political issues and popular causes. The supremely controversial power salute of...
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Included in Sonnabend Paris's legendary Rauschenberg drawing show, the imagery in this work signals the artist's active engagement with political issues and popular causes. The supremely controversial power salute of the black athletes at the 1968 Olympics is reproduced at left, alongside an image of President Johnson with his arms outstretched, his gesture mimicked by the wings of the corporate jet. Ursula Andress emerges from the waves at bottom, straight from her appearance in James Bonds' Dr. No,
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Provenance

Galerie Collection, France

Private Collection, France

Private Collection, France, inherited from above

Private Collection

Exhibitions

Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Rauschenberg, 25 Dessins- Frottages 1968, 3 October - 1 November 1968

New York, Stellan Holm Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg: Transfer Drawings 1958-1969, 1 November 2011- 1 January 2012

New York, Sandra Gering Inc, 1990/2014 Strategies of Non- Intention: John Cage and the Artists He Collected, 12 June- 5 September 2014, illus colour, unpaginated

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