Curtain Call [Anagram (A Pun)]

Details

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Curtain Call [Anagram (A Pun)]
signed and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 98' (lower left); titled 'CURTAIN CALL' (on the reverse)
inkjet pigment transfer on polylaminate
97 ½ x 61in. (247.7 x 154.9cm.)
Executed in 1998

Provenance

Private Collection, Belgium.
Lawrence Rubin / Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

Exhibited

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Rauschenberg, 2004, no. 88 (illustrated in colour, p. 196).

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Descriptif du lot

‘My fascination with images … is based on the complex interlocking of disparate visual facts … that have no respect for grammar.’
– Robert Rauschenberg

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