Live Auction 14996Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Lot 712 Property from an Important Private Collector

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Sprinkler [Anagram (A Pun)]

Closed16 November 2017

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USD 200,000

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Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Sprinkler [Anagram (A Pun)]
signed and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 99' (lower left)
vegetable dye transfer on polylaminate
61 x 41 3/8 in. (154.9 x 105.1 cm.)
Executed in 1999.

PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003

Specialist note

"Rauschenberg's images have been chosen to maintain a condition of pictorial and psychological tensions. Resolution would destroy this tension and the elements chosen never admit the possibility of logical interpretation or elucidation either in themselves or in relation to the things with which they have been combined" (A. Solomon, Robert Rauschenberg, exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York, 1963, n.p.).