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Property from the Collection of Ulrich Otto Sauer, Germany

Robert Rauschenberg

House Party (Syn-Tex)

Lot Closed

December 18, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Ulrich Otto Sauer, Germany

Robert Rauschenberg

1925 - 2008

House Party (Syn-Tex)


signed, titled and dated 70

solvent transfer, newsprint, printed reproductions, gouache and graphite on paper

40 by 27 in. (101 by 68.8 cm.)

Solomon & Co., New York
Waddington Galleries, London
Private Collection
Parke-Bernet Auction, New York, 2 November 1978, Lot 242
Lewis M Kaplan Association, London
Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 1990, Lot 350
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, 8 May 1996, Lot 341
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Galerie Leu, Munich
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006
New York, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, Robert Rauschenberg: New Works, November - December 1970
Chicago, Wabash Transit Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Rauschenberg: Syn-Tex Series, January 1971
Minneapolis, Dayton's Gallery 12, Robert Rauschenberg: Syn-Tex Series and Cardbirds, Constructions, June 1971
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg: Paintings, Drawings & Prints, August - September 1971
Berlin, Galerie Michael Haas, Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on Paper, March 2003, n.p., pl. 49, illustrated in color
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, re-exposed to encourage consideration.”

- Robert Rauschenberg