The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

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Robert Rauschenberg

Sundog

Auction Closed

November 9, 12:13 AM GMT

Estimate

8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Rauschenberg

(b. 1925)


Sundog

signed, titled and dated 1962 (on the reverse)

oil and silkscreen ink on canvas

60 by 60 in. 152.4 by 152.4 cm.

Executed in 1962.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# RR-120)

William Janss, Sun Valley (acquired from the above in 1962)

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 

Acquired from the above in May 1986 by the present owner

Robert Rauschenberg, "Random Order," Location, vol. 1, Spring 1963, p. 27, illustrated in color

Alberto Boatto, Pop Art in U.S.A., Milan, 1967, p. 50, illustrated 

Andrew Forge, Rauschenberg, New York, 1969, pp. 133, 227, illustrated

Andrew Forge, Rauschenberg: Modern Artists, New York, 1972, no. 36, pp. 17, 81, illustrated

Calvin Tomkins, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time, Garden City, 1980, p. 305

Lisa Susan Wainwright, "Reading Junk: Thematic Imagery in the Art of Robert Rauschenberg from 1952 to 1964," PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1993, p. 222

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, 1997, pp. 209, 562

Branden W. Joseph, Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde, Cambridge, 2003, p. xiv

Exh. Cat., Baltimore Museum of Art, Slide Show: Projected Images in Contemporary Art, 2005, p. 37, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg, 2010, p. 24

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Rauschenberg: The Silkscreen Paintings 1962-64, December 1990 - March 1991, no. 1, pp. 26, 125, 171, illustrated in color

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paint and Painted: Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection, May 1993 - April 1995

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Contemporary American Masters: The 1960s, June - September 1999, p. 45, illustrated, and p. 93

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Rauschenberg: Express, November 2006 - January 2007, no. 13, pp. 45 and 83, illustrated in color 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Unforgettable: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, February - April 2011

New York, LX Arts, On the Turn: Selections from the Collection of Emily Fisher Landau, October - February 2020