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Broken Harp

Robert Rauschenberg

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Artwork details

Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Title: Broken Harp
Description: Robert Rauschenberg’s Broken Harp (1989) is a color lithograph on wove paper that blends neoclassical imagery with abstract elements, often featuring vivid, layered, and fragmented imagery typical of the artist’s later work. It was published by Dallas Cares/The American Foundation for AIDS Research in a limited edition of 500, is hand-signed by the artist, dated and numbered in pencil measuring 38 x 33 ¾ in (96.5 x 85.7 cm), unframed.
Date: 1989
Medium: Colour Lithograph
Edition: Edition of 500
Signature: Signed
Sheet: 38 x 33 ¾ in (96.5 x 85.7 cm), unframed cm
Status: Available
Price: Price on request

The Artist

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.