About this artwork
This remarkable work was created in collaboration with Rauschenberg’s wife at the time, Susan Weil. It belongs to a group of blueprints the pair produced together in around 1950, using photography techniques to create imprints on blueprint paper. The method is typical of Rauschenberg’s improvised and experimental approach to making art, something he pursued throughout his six-decade long career. (Monoprint: exposed blueprint paper 209.6 x 92.1 cm, Private Collection © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation).
Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled (double Rauschenberg), 1950 / 2017, Fine Art Print, 300/m² Purcell Ultrasmooth matte fine art paper, fade resistant. Based on the original Monoprint exposed blueprint paper of 1950, size: 209.6 x 92.1 cm. Private Collection. Fine Art Print Picture size: 80 x 35,8 cm, total size: 100 x 75 cm. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Price EUR 450.- Order here!
About the Artist
The early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) launched his career, was the heyday of the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg challenged this tradition, inventing new intermedia forms of art making that shaped the decades to come. Over the span of six decades, Robert Rauschenberg worked in an astonishing range of mediums including painting, sculpture, prints, photography and performance, and became one of the most transformative figures in postwar American culture. Working alone and in collaboration with artists, dancers, musicians and writers, Rauschenberg produced a vast body of work that continues to resonate today.
He was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and scientists to challenge our thinking about art. Through collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and others, Rauschenberg bridged the music, dance, and visual-art worlds, inventing a new art for the last half of the twentieth century.
More Artworks by this Artist
Robert Rauschenberg, Flush, 1964 / 2017, Fine Art Print, 300/m² Purcell Ultrasmooth matte fine art paper, fade resistant. Based on the original oil and silkscreen ink on canvas from 1964, size: 243.8 x 182.9 cm, today at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fine Art Print Picture size: 80 x 35,8 cm, total size: 100 x 75 cm. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Price EUR 350.- Order here!
Robert Rauschenberg, Persimmon, 1964 / 2017, Fine Art Print, 300/m² Purcell Ultrasmooth matte fine art paper, fade resistant. Based on the original Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas, size: 167.6 x 127 cm. Private collection. Fine Art Print Picture size: 80 x 35,8 cm, total size: 100 x 75 cm. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Price EUR 350.- Order here
