Robert Rauschenberg

Overview
View works. Robert Rauschenberg, Hollywood Sphinx, from Illegal Tender L.A.
Hollywood Sphinx, from Illegal Tender L.A.
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"A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked.

 

Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he helped obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art - not to mention between art and life."  - Michael Kimmelman

Works
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Autobiography, 1968
    Robert Rauschenberg
    Autobiography, 1968
    Lithograph
    67 by 144 inches
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  • Robert Rauschenberg, Hollywood Sphinx, from Illegal Tender L.A.
    Robert Rauschenberg
    Hollywood Sphinx, from Illegal Tender L.A.
    Lithograph in colors on HMP Koller paper, published by Gemini G.E.L.
    40 1/4 by 30 3/8 inches
    Sold
Biography
Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg was born in 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas and died on Captiva Island, Florida in 2008. He has had numerous exhibitions worldwide, including "Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1997, traveled to Menil Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, through 1999); "Combines," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2005, traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm in 2007); "Cardboards and Related Pieces," Menil Collection, Houston (2007); "Traveling '70-'76", Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (2008, traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Madre, Naples in 2009); "Gluts," The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (2009, traveled to The Tinguely Museum, Basel, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese in 2010); and "Botanical Vaudeville", Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (2011). Gagosian Gallery first exhibited Robert Rauschenberg's work in 1986.