Robert Rauschenberg

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Description

Robert Rauschenberg
Cage (Combine Drawing)
solvent transfer on paper with pencil, gouache, watercolor, crayon, paper and paper plate collaged on paper
18 3/4 by 23 3/4 in. 47.6 by 60.3 cm.
Executed in 1958.

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Alice M. Denney, Washington, D.C.z
Sotheby's, New York, November 10, 1993, lot 19
Duncan Macguigan, New York
Christie's, New York, May 9, 2006, lot 73
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fuld, New York
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Acquired by the present owner from the above in November 2010

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts Smithsonian Institution; New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Rauschenberg, October 1976 - January 1978, cat. no. 58, p. 97, illustrated
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Houston, The Menil Collection; Houston; The Museum of Fine Arts and Bilbao, The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, September 1997 - January 1998, cat. no. 96, p.126, illustrated in color

Catalogue Note

Cage, created in 1958, is one of Robert Rauschenberg's first Combine drawings created through a highly developed transfer process using printed images gathered from newspapers, magazines and comics. It is also the first collaboration between the work's namesake, composer John Cage, and Rauschenberg. Cage stated that "There is no more subject in a Combine than there is in a page from a newspaper. Everything that is there is a subject." (Silence, Wesleyan, 1961).