The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
Robert Rauschenberg
Vitamin
Auction Closed
November 9, 12:13 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Rauschenberg
(b. 1925)
Vitamin
oil, printed paper, cardboard, rubber, plastic, nails and hooks on canvas
60 by 54 by 7 in. 152.4 by 137.2 by 17.8 cm.
Executed in 1960 and 1968.
The artist
Acquired directly from the above in May 1982 by the present owner
Marjorie Welish, "Artful Balance," House and Garden, vol. 157, no. 5, May 1985, pp. 164-65, illustrated in color
John Thomason, "Norton's New Exhibition a Trove of Contemporary Art Riches," Boca Magazine, 16 March 2022 (online)
New York, Leo Castelli, Summary 1959-1960, May - June 1960 (prior to the addition of the cardboard element)
Des Moines Art Center, Six Decades of American Painting of the Twentieth Century, February - March 1961 (prior to the addition of the cardboard element)
Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Three Young Americans, January 1963
New York, Washington Square Galleries, World Show, June 1964 (prior to the addition of the cardboard element)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, October - November 1968
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paint and Painted: Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection, May 1993 - April 1995
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paintings and Sculpture, December 2001 - April 2003
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, May 2006 - May 2007, no. 117, p. 138, illustrated in color