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Robert Rauschenberg

Bamhue / ROCI Japan

Lot Closed

October 4, 06:03 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Rauschenberg

1925 - 2008

Bamhue / ROCI Japan


signed, dated 87 and numbered BAT at the base

bamboo with neon, electrical timer and metal fixtures

90 by 4 by 10¾ in. (228.6 by 10.2 by 27.3 cm.)

Executed in 1987, this work is a Bon à Tirer from an edition of 25, of which 12 were realized.

Graphicstudio, Tampa

Private Collection, Sweden

Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm

Sotheby's New York, 12 November, 2014, Lot 342

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

National Gallery of Art, ROCI Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange, Washington, D.C., 1991, p. 97, illustrated in color

National Gallery of Art, Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1994, p.179, illustrated in black and white

University of South Florida, Graphicstudio, The Institute for Research in Art, Tampa, 2001, p. 18, illustrated in color

Moscow, Central House of Artists, Tratyakov Gallery, Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange: ROCI USSR, February - March 1989 (another example exhibited)

Berlin, Neue Berliner Galerie, Altes Museum, Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange: ROCI USSR, March - April 1990 (another example exhibited)

Tampa, University of South Florida, Graphicstudio, Institute for Research in Art, Robert Rauschenberg: Two Decades at Graphicstudio, September - December 1995 (another example exhibited)

Tampa Museum of Art, Donald Saff/Robert Rauschenberg: In Collaboration, February - April 1997 (another example exhibited)

Spokane, Washington, Cheney Cowles Museum, Soup to Nuts: Pop Art and Its Legacy, March - June 14, 1998, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Tampa, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Rauschenberg: USF, June - August 2008 (another example exhibited)

Naples Museum of Art, Works by Robert Rauschenberg from the Dr. John B. and Frances C. Fenning Collection, January - March 2011 (another example exhibited)

Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, Inverleith House, Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville, July - October 2011, p. 71, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, The Floor Show: Gravity and Materials, June - July 2012, p. 71, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Maine, Rockland, Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine: The Farnsworth Collection, May - March 2021 (another example exhibited)