Artwork details

Artist

Robert Rauschenberg

Title

Breakthrough i

Description

Robert Rauschenberg

Breakthrough I

1964

Medium: Lithograph

Sheet size: 41 3/8 x 29 3/4 inches

Frame size: 49 5/8 x 37 7/8 inches

Printer and Publisher: ULAE, West Islip, New York

Edition size: 20, plus proofs

Catalogue Raisonné: ULAE 22

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin

Date

1964

Medium

Lithograph

Edition

20, plus proofs

Signature

Signed

Catalogue Raisonne

ULAE 22

Sheet

41 3/8 x 29 3/4 inches

Status

Available

Price

Price on request

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg, an American born in 1925, started producing painterly prints in the early 1960s that contained pictures he cut out of magazines and newspapers. Nearly ten years prior, he had created pieces he dubbed “Combines,” which are fusions of painting and sculpture that embrace the noise of daily life and contrast the solitary canvases of abstract expressionism. The ordinary was also introduced in Rauschenberg’s prints in a variety of ways, such as the water ring left by a drinking glass, the embossment from a coin, or the traced contour of a cane. By reintroducing representation into the avant-garde, the artist revived a vibrant visual language. “What he invented above all was…a graphic surface that let the world in again,” wrote art historian Leo Steinberg.