Robert Rauschenberg

Musical Mollusk

This lot has been withdrawn

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Nassau County Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit Collections Care

Robert Rauschenberg

1925 - 2008

Musical Mollusk

signed thrice, titled thrice and dated 78 thrice (on the reverse)

solvent transfer, fabric, acrylic, printed reproduction and graphite on plywood with objects

84 ½ by 119 ¾ by 29 in.

214.3 by 278.8 by 73.7 cm.

Executed in 1978.

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Christie's New York, 8 May 1997, lot 172 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Berlin, Staatliche Künsthalle; Künsthalle Düsseldorf; Hummelbaeck, Louisiana Musuem of Modern Art; Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Robert Rauschenberg Werke 1950-1980, March 1980 - March 1981, no. 67, p. 381, illustrated in color

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, OP And POP, February - May 2008

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection, March - May 2010

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Out of the Vault: 25 Years of Collecting, March - July 2015