$41,275
Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000
What Do You See? The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Part I
Auction: February 27, 2024 at 12 PM ET
Signed and dated ‘Rauschenberg 70’ bottom center left; also titled ‘Letter Head II’ bottom center right, solvent transfer with Polaroid photographs, lenticular images, paper, printed reproductions, gouache, tape and graphite on paper
40 3/4 x 28 in. (103.5 x 71.1cm)
Note: this lot is registered with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation as number RRF 70.D041.
Lewis Kaplan, Inc., London, United Kingdom.
Christie's, New York, sale of November 19, 1981, lot 283.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Robert Rauschenberg: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, August 5-September 13, 1971.
“The image and the word cooperate to construct a flat re-reading of the facts plus familiar passing insignificancies that control our day. Information, originally engaged in a daily rhetorical screen to eliminate as much direct feeling and response as possible, reexposed to encourage consideration.” from an exhibition announcement/poster. New York: Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, 1970.