Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Untitled (Elemental Sculpture)
wood box with metal, twine and stone
2 3/4 x 3 x 4 1/4 in. (6.9 x 7.6 x 10.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1953.
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Untitled (Elemental Sculpture)
wood box with metal, twine and stone
2 3/4 x 3 x 4 1/4 in. (6.9 x 7.6 x 10.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1953.
The Estate of Ileana Sonnabend, acquired directly from the artist
By descent from the above to the present owner
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, June 1991-January 1993, p. 184, no. 111 (illustrated).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, Menil Collection; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Mito, Art Tower and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rolywholy Over a Circus, September 1993-August 1995.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Rauschenberg: Sculpture, October 1995-June 1996, pp. 64 and 89, nos. 54 and 71.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg, September 2005-January 2006, p. 47, no. 38 (illustrated in color).
New York, Craig F. Starr Galley, Robert Rauschenberg: The Fulton Street Studio, 1953-54, April-May 2014.
Please note the correct title of this work is Untitled (Elemental Sculpture).
Please note the additional exhibition history:
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, Menil Collection; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Mito, Art Tower and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rolywholy Over a Circus, September 1993-August 1995.
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