Live Auction 15969Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Lot 709 WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF ILEANA SONNABEND AND THE ESTATE OF NINA CASTELLI SUNDELL

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Hurricane

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 275,000

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Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Hurricane
signed and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 68' (lower left); titled 'HURRICANE' (on the reverse)
solvent transfer, gouache and watercolor on paper
22 5/8 x 29 ¾ in. (57.4 x 75.5 cm.)
Executed in 1968.

The Estate of Ileana Sonnabend, acquired directly from the artist
By descent to the present owner

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.).