Robert Rauschenberg was one of the preeminent American artists of the 20th century, occupying a singular position that straddled the Abstract Expressionist and Pop art movements, drawing on key elements of each. An artistic polymath equally adept at painting, collage and silkscreening, Rauschenberg is best known for for the complex assemblages of found objects he termed “combines.”
Rauschenberg was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1925. He first began to seriously consider a career in art in 1947, while serving in the U.S. Marines. After leaving the service, he briefly studied art in Paris with support from the G.I. Bill, then moved to North Carolina to attend Black Mountain College, home to a flourishing cross-disciplinary art community. Among his peers there were choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage, both of whom became friends and artistic collaborators.
Relocating to New York in the mid-1950s, Rauschenberg was initially put off by what he perceived as the self-seriousness of the adherents of Abstract Expressionism, then the dominant movement in the New York art world. Like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg was drawn to the visual landscape of popular culture and mined its imagery for inspiration. He used unorthodox materials like house paint and tried novel techniques in his studio like running paper over with a car whose wheels he had inked. Shortly after his inaugural solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, which featured paintings and drawings, he pivoted to a new format, creating his first found-object combines, which became his signature. The most famous of these is the 1959 Monogram in which a taxidermied goat is surrounded by a car tire, recalling the way a person’s initials are interwoven in the design referred to by the title.
Later in the 1960s, Rauschenberg turned his attention to silkscreening, creating prints that feature iconic figures of the day, very much in line with the style and content of Pop art. One such work, 1965's Core, which was created to commemorate the Congress of Racial Equality, combines photographs of President Kennedy, an unidentified Native American man, and a statue of a Civil War soldier with images of highways, amusement parks, street signs, and other features of the built environment. A circular color-test wheel sits at the composition’s formal core, reflecting the work’s commentary on race and ethnicity.
Throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, Rauschenberg experimented with printing on unusual materials, such as Plexiglas, clothing and aluminum. Venturing even further afield, he created performance works, such as his 1963 choreographed piece “Pelican” and the 1966 film Open Score. In 1998, the Guggenheim Museum presented a large and comprehensive retrospective of Rauschenberg’s work, highlighting his influence on American art in the second half of the 20th century.
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Robert Rauschenberg - Rare 1960s Musee D'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris poster
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg Rare 1960s Musee D'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris poster, 1968 Offset Lithograph Edition of 500 27 1/2 × 21 inches Unframed, not signed Accompanied by Certifica...
Lithograph, Offset
$8,400Sale Price|20% Off
Charms against harms, Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Charms against harms Year: 1993 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Edition: H.C. 8/15, 100, plus proofs Size: 40.5 x 28 inches Condition:...
Lithograph
$5,200Sale Price|20% Off
International Very Special Arts Festival, Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: International Very Special Arts Festival Year: 1989 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Edition: 190/275, plus proofs Size: 35.5 x 26.5 in...
Lithograph
$8,400Sale Price|20% Off
Tribute 21 (Human Rights), Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Tribute 21 (Human Rights) Year: 1994 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 20/50, plus proofs Size: 40.75 x 27 inches Condition: ...
Lithograph
$5,200Sale Price|20% Off
Human Rights 1981, Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Human Rights 1981 Year: 1981 Medium: Silkscreen and lithograph on wove paper Edition: 41/100, plus proofs Size: 31 x 23 inches Conditio...
Lithograph, Screen
Dream Cycle (from the Ground Rules Series) - Monumental Intaglio Print, 1997
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Robert Rauschenberg's ‘Ground Rules’ series, produced in 1999 in collaboration with the renowned print workshop Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), represents one of the most ambi...
Intaglio, Photogravure
Flaps 12-color screen print by Robert Rauschenberg Edition 36 of 52
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Boca Raton, FL
12-color screen print on deckle edge paper of a collage of Moroccan street scenes including an orange stand, umbrellas, a motorcycle shop and a F...
Screen
Horn
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is revered as one of the most innovative American Pop artists. More avant-garde than Warhol and more audacious than Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg worked...
Lithograph
$375
H 28 in W 36.75 in
Rhodes Serigraph on Paper, Hand Signed, Edition of 300, 1992
By Howard Behrens
Located in Aventura, FL
From Isles of Greece Suite. Serigraph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size 25 x 32 inches Edition of 300. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of...
Paper, Screen
Warhol, Chanel (Yellow/Blue), Chanel Ad Campaign (after)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Chanel Year: 1997 Medium: Offset lithograph on archival paper mounted on canvas Size: 29 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed in the plate Notes: This special ...
Canvas, Offset
$636Sale Price|20% Off
H 30 in W 21 in
Warhol, Chanel (Green/Blue), Chanel Ad Campaign (after)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Chanel Year: 1997 Medium: Offset lithograph on archival paper mounted on canvas Size: 30 x 21 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed in the plate Notes: This special ...
Canvas, Offset
$636Sale Price|20% Off
H 30 in W 21 in
Warhol, Chanel (Red/Pink), Channel Ad Campaign (after)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Chanel Year: 1997 Medium: Offset lithograph on archival paper mounted on canvas Size: 30 x 21 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed in the plate Notes: This special ...
Canvas, Offset
$636Sale Price|20% Off
H 29 in W 22 in
Warhol, Chanel (Blue), Chanel Ad Campaign (after)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Chanel Year: 1997 Medium: Offset lithograph on archival paper mounted on canvas Size: 29 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed in the plate Notes: This special ...
Canvas, Offset
$432Sale Price|20% Off
H 24.5 in W 12.5 in
Max, Statue of Liberty V, Hand Signed, Official Edition, Peter Max (after)
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Statue of Liberty V Year: 1981 Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on gloss archival paper Size: 24.5 x 12.5 inches Inscription: Hand signed by Peter Max in ink and unnumbered...
Offset
$125
H 40 in W 25.5 in
Christo - The Wrapped Reichstag at Night, offset lithograph poster, plate signed
By Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Located in New York, NY
Christo The Wrapped Reichstag at Night, 1993 Offset Lithograph Plate signed (printed signature) by Christo on lower right front 40 × 25 1/2 inches Unframed and affixed to matting (a...
Lithograph, Offset
$432Sale Price|20% Off
H 36 in W 24 in
Max, World Cup '94, Hand Signed, Official Edition, Peter Max (after)
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: World Cup '94 Year: 1994 Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on gloss archival paper Size: 36 x 24 inches Inscription: Hand signed by Peter Max in ink and unnumbered, as issue...
Offset
$432Sale Price|20% Off
H 36 in W 24 in
Max, Sunrise, Hand Signed, Official Edition, Peter Max (after)
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Sunrise Year: 1999 Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on gloss archival paper Size: 36 x 24 inches Inscription: Hand signed by Peter Max in ink and unnumbered, as issued Note...
Offset
$2,800
H 25.5 in W 19.8 in
Salvador Dalí Whoever Takes Carmen (Salvador Dalí prints Salvador Dalí Carmen)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Salvador Dalí Whoever Takes Carmen Away Must Pay with His Life 1970 (from Carmen): Lithograph in colors on Arches paper. 25.5 x 19.8 inches (64.8 x 50.5 cm). Good overall vintage ...
Paper, Lithograph
$475Sale Price|20% Off
H 36 in W 24 in
Max, Blushing Beauty, Hand Signed, Official Edition, Peter Max (after)
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Blushing Beauty Year: 1999 Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on gloss archival paper Size: 24 x 36 inches Inscription: Hand signed by Peter Max in ink and unnumbered, as iss...
Offset
$432Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 36 in
Max, Cosmic Flyer, Hand Signed, Official Edition, Peter Max (after)
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Cosmic Flyer Year: 2000 Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on gloss archival paper Size: 24 x 36 inches Inscription: Hand signed by Peter Max in ink and unnumbered, as issued...
Offset
Sold
H 28.5 in W 20.5 in
Most Distant Visible Part of the Sea, Pop Art by Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg, American (1925 - 2008) Title: Most Distant Visible Part of the Sea Year: 1983 Medium: Lithograph with collage on Wove Paper, signed and numbered in penci...
Lithograph
Rauschenberg, Bicycle, 1991
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Bicycle Year: 1991 Medium: Offset Lithograph on archival paper Size: 26.5 x 39 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by Universa...
Lithograph, Offset
Rauschenberg, Bicycle, 1991
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Bicycle Year: 1991 Medium: Offset Lithograph on archival paper Size: 26.5 x 39 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by Universa...
Lithograph, Offset
Quarry Local One (Foster 63), Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Quarry Local One (Foster 63) Year: 1968 Medium: Offset lithograph printed in colors on wove paper Edition: 300, plus proofs Size: 33 x ...
Lithograph, Offset
Rauschenberg, Bicycle, 1991
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Bicycle Year: 1991 Medium: Offset Lithograph on archival paper Size: 26.5 x 39 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by Universa...
Lithograph, Offset
Local Quarry One
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Local Quarry One Year: 1968 Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper Edition: 850, plus proofs Size: 34.5 x 26.5 inches Condition: Ex...
Lithograph, Offset
Grateful Dead, 1988 Rainforest Benefit Poster
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Grateful Dead, Rainforest Benefit Year: 1988 Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper Size: 28 x 18 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by The United Press Inc. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (1925-2008) One of the most influential American artists, having led the direction of contemporary art since his first showings in New York City in the early 1950s, Rauschenberg gained notoriety with his combine sculptures and paintings that often re-contextualized found objects from the streets of New York. He was one of the pioneers that utilized silk-screening to incorporate random imagery into his work. This element in his work was influential in the later work of Andy Warhol and the rest of the Pop Art movement. He is considered by many to be the master artist of his generation. ABOUT SELLER DO YOU HAVE ARTWORK TO SELL? WE ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING CONSIGNMENTS AND EXCEPTIONAL OBJECTS TO PURCHASE OUTRIGHT! Art Commerce...
Lithograph, Offset
Grateful Dead, 1988 Rainforest Benefit Poster
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Grateful Dead, Rainforest Benefit Year: 1988 Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper Size: 28 x 18 inches Condition: Excellent Notes...
Lithograph, Offset
Local Quarry One
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Local Quarry One Year: 1968 Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper Edition: 850, plus proofs Size: 34.5 x 26.5 inches Condition: Ex...
Lithograph, Offset
Local Quarry One
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Local Quarry One Year: 1968 Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper Edition: 850, plus proofs Size: 34.5 x 26.5 inches Condition: Ex...
Lithograph, Offset
Sold
H 26.5 in W 39 in
Bicycle, 1991 National Gallery of Art Exhibition Offset Lithograph
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Bicycle Year: 1991 Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper Size: 26.5 x 39 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by Universal...
Lithograph, Offset
Boston Symphony, 1980 Centennial Exhibition Poster
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Title: Boston Symphony Centennial Year: 1980 Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper Size: 38 x 25.5 inches ...
Lithograph, Offset