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Property from a Private European Collection

Robert Rauschenberg

Untitled (Scatole Personali)

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May 13, 09:05 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Private European Collection

Robert Rauschenberg

1925 - 2008

Untitled (Scatole Personali)


signed, dated 53, inscribed CY and TANGER on the underside

hinged wood box, oil, Arabic newsprint, printed paper collage, peacock feather, glass mirror, plastic beads, twine and soil

open: 2 ⅞ by 8 ⅛ by by 5 in. 7.3 by 20.6 by 12.7 cm.

closed: 1 ½ by 8 ⅛ by 2 ¾ in. 3.8 by 20.6 by 7 cm.

Executed circa 1952.

Acquired directly from the artist in 1953

Rome, American Academy, American Art in Italian Private Collections, May - June 1994, cat. no. 10, p. 9, illustrated in color

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Rauschenberg, February – June 2004, cat. no. 10, p. 133, illustrated in color

London, Tate Modern; New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Robert Rauschenberg, December 2016 - March 2018, p. 82, cat. no. 46, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950's, 1991, pp. 138-139, cat. no. 86, illustrated