Live Auction 3741Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale Session II
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Lot 574

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Rose Wrench (Salvage)

Closed14 May 2015

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USD 269,000

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Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Rose Wrench (Salvage)
signed and dated 'Rauschenberg 84' (lower edge)
acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
63 1/2 x 80 1/2 in. (161.2 x 204.4 cm.)
Executed in 1984.

Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"The use of the familiar is obscure, the use of the exotic is familiar. Neither sacrifices completely its origin but the mind has to travel to follow just as the eye has to change focus. In the end a viewed painting has been an invitation not a command" (R. Rauschenberg, 'Öyvind Fahlström (1961)', Art and Literature 3 (1964), p. 214).