Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Lot 367 Property from an Important American Collection

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Politics Mouse Gravity (Galvanic Suite)

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 100,000

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Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Politics Mouse Gravity (Galvanic Suite)
signed and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 90' (lower left)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on galvanized steel
48 x 37 in. (124.5 x 96.5 cm.)
Executed in 1990.

Trisha Brown Company, Benefit Auction, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 11 April 1990, courtesy of the artist
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note


Where Warhol used silk-screen painting to mimic the pervasive repetitions of consumer culture, Rauschenberg created intricate dialogues between painted abstraction and photo-based representation.
—R. Meyer, “An Invitation, Not a Command,” in Robert Rauschenberg, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, 2016, pp. 194-195