Robert Rauschenberg American, 1925-2008
Untitled, 1968
solvent transfer, acrylic, watercolour and pencil on paper
22 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches
57.1 x 75.6 cm
57.1 x 75.6 cm
signed and dated recto
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation archive number RRF 68.D060
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation archive number RRF 68.D060
1968 is the year of RKF's assassination and of OJ Simpson's Heisman trophy win, and he and his teammates, highlight in blue, rub shoulders with grinning US politicians, a heady...
1968 is the year of RKF's assassination and of OJ Simpson's Heisman trophy win, and he and his teammates, highlight in blue, rub shoulders with grinning US politicians, a heady mixture of sports and the body politic. The wives, including Lady Bird Johnson and Mrs Spiro Agnew, inhabit a separate universe on the sheet. A pressure gage, a spark plug and a jigsaw point to impeding change on the American scene.
Provenance
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, acquired directly from the artist
Susan Davidson, Toronto
Peter Freeman Gallery, New York
Lewis Marx, New York
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Copenhagen, Gallerie Faurshou, Robert Rauschenberg: Works from the 1960's, 8 February - 17 March 2005, p36, illus colour, pl.27
New York, Jonathan O'Hara Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg Transfer Drawings from the 1960s, 8 February - 17 March 2007, cat no.27, illus colour, p48
New York, Stellan Holm Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg: Transfer Drawings 1958-1969, 1 November 2011 - 1 January 2012