American Mix #2 Photogravure Chine Colle on Handmade paper 1983

Year1983

Hand SignedIn pencil, lower left 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with Plexiglass 

Purchased fromPrivate Collector 

Provenance / HistoryHanson Galleries Published by Iris Editions NY with full margins 

Story / Additional InfoThe American Mix a series of 16 has been shown in museums. The suite shows the artist’s ability to present the beauty of discarded or found objects while conducting a sort of engaging commentary on American consumerism. These photographs should also be perceived in the context of Rauschenberg’s oeuvre and his focus on the interplay between various textures, shapes, and materials found in his paintings and sculptures.Hanson Galleries
Over the course of his six-decade career, Robert Rauschenberg embraced pop culture, technical experimentation, and material eclecticism. Today, he’s perhaps best known for his radical, three-dimensional “Combines”—which he composed from discarded materials and mundane objects such as sheet metal, newspaper, tires, and umbrellas—and for his colorful silkscreen paintings on which he screen-printed, then painted over, collaged photographs sourced from books and magazines. In 1964, Rauschenberg made history when he became the first American to win the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale. In the years since, Rauschenberg has been the subject of solo shows at the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and Moderna Museet, among other institutions. His work belongs in collections worldwide and has sold for tens of millions at auction. 

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Robert Rauschenberg - United States

Art Brokerage: Robert Rauschenberg American Artist: Robert Rauschenberg was a prominent member of the American Post-War avant-garde. The artist's sculpture-painting hybrids known as Combines, broke through the two dimensionality of the canvas at a time when Abstract Expressionism dominated the scene. His seminal Neo-Dada work, Erased de Kooning (1953), consisted of ritualistically wiping out an original drawing he purchased from the famed painter. "I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones," he once said. "Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown." Born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg on October 22, 1925 in Port Arthur, TX, he was drafted into the Navy during World War II where he served as medical technician in San Diego. After the war, he used the GI Bill to travel to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, where he met his future wife Susan Weil. He and Weil went on to attend the Black Mountain College in North Carolina alongside John Cage and Merce Cunningham. Have settled in New York in 1949, Rauschenberg began questioning the nature of painting through works such as Bed (1955) and Monogram (1955–1959), which utilized commercial imagery and mass produced objects. Many of the artist's ideas foresaw the emergence of Andy Warhol and Pop Art in the 1960s. The artist died on May 12, 2008 in Captiva, FL. Today, Rauschenberg's works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Kunstmuseum Basel, among others. Listings wanted.