Solvent transfer on two overlapping fabric panels
USA, 1974
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) – US-American painter, object and graphic artist
Signed, inscribed and dated lower left in pencil ‘RAUSCHENBERG CHANGE INC 74’
From the Hoarfrost series
Panels: 220 × 128 cm
Very good condition
Provenance: Private ownership, Austria
Exhibition: Hoarfrost Editions, Leo Castelli and Galerie Sonnabend, December 7-28, 1974, New York
Literature: Compare exhibition catalog, Robert Rauschenberg. A Retrospective, Guggenheim Museum, New York 1997/98, fig. p. 354 f
Robert Rauschenberg is considered a pioneer of pop art – he is best known for his happenings, assemblages and combined paintings; the auction record for a printed work of his is set at more than €109,000

‘Scent’ is part of the Hoarfrost series with nine works by Robert Rauschenberg from the year 1974. He created the series in collaboration with the printer studio Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles. The series was inspired by cheesecloths that are used to clean the lithograph stones from the lithograph ink between the print runs. Rauschenberg was captivated by the way the paint remained on the gauzy, veil-like cloths as they were swinging in the wind, hung in the studio to dry. In this series he transferred texts and images of for example copies of The Los Angeles Times using the solvent transfer technique on free floating silk, satin, taffeta, muslin and gauze layers and strengthened them in parts with paper bags.



The print is signed, inscribed and dated lower left in pencil ‘RAUSCHENBERG CHANGE INC 74’. The fabrics are mounted on cardboard and framed behind Perspex in a wooden frame. The fabric panels are slightly wavy due to the mount. The fabrics are minimally creases. The panels measure together 220 × 128 cm and the total dimensions, including the frame, are 241 x 145.5 cm.



Robert Rauschenberg (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. (tm)

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