Robert Rauschenberg American, 1925-2008
Allocation I, 1969
solvent transfer on Arches paper in two parts with gouache and pencil
22 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches
57.1 x 75.5 cm
57.1 x 75.5 cm
Top: titled 'Allocation (in 2 parts)' verso
Bottom: signed, dated and titled 'Allocation (in 2 parts)' verso
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation archive number RRF 69.D001
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Registry
#LCD-141
Bottom: signed, dated and titled 'Allocation (in 2 parts)' verso
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation archive number RRF 69.D001
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Registry
#LCD-141
Submitted by the artist to the Whitney's 'American Drawing' show of 1973, this two-sheet work contains a compendium of Rauschenberg's political and artistic lexicon. The upper sheet includes images of...
Submitted by the artist to the Whitney's 'American Drawing' show of 1973, this two-sheet work contains a compendium of Rauschenberg's political and artistic lexicon. The upper sheet includes images of Barry Goldwater (whose face is cancelled out by two strokes of Rauschenberg's crayon0 and Denny McClain, Detroit's first and only pitcher to win 30 games. The negative pace in the upper sheet reappears as a positive in the bottom sheet, literally crammed with overlapping headlines.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto
Janie C.Lee Gallery, Dallas
Private Collection, North Carolina
Pace Wildenstein, New York
Exhibitions
New York, The Whitney Museum of Art, American Drawings 1963- 1973, 25 May- 22 June 1973, illus b/w, p43
New York, Jonathan O'Hara Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg Transfer Drawings from the 1960s, 8 February- 17 March 2007, cat no.39, illus colour, p61