Robert Rauschenberg (AMERICAN, 1925-2008)
Shirtboard
Screenprint with collage on handmade paper
1991
Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin
Numbered 31/65 in pencil, lower margin
Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (54 x 19.7 cm)
From Shirtboards, Morocco, Italy, '52
Published by Styria Studio, New York, with blindstamp, lower margin
In overall good condition
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On his travels to Italy and North Africa with fellow artist Cy Twombly, Rauschenberg was inspired to create a series of collages using bits and pieces of fabric, feathers and snips of newspapers found on the street. Beginning in the early 1990s, Rauschenberg and Styria Studio reproduced these works.

From the "Shirtboards, Morocco, Italy ’52" series, the silkscreen is signed, dated and numbered 31/65 in pencil along the lower edge, with the Styria Studio blindstamp. It measures 211/4 x 7 3/4 inches.

Robert Rauschenberg (AMERICAN, 1925-2008)

Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist, whose early works are part of the pop-art movement. He is known for his ‘Combines’ artworks that he made during the fifties. In this art form he united non-traditional materials with objects to innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both, painter and sculptor and his ‘combines’ united the two forms of art. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1993. And in 1995, he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts. Until his death in 2008, he had lived in New York City and Florida.