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Bulkhead (Day Lights)

Robert Rauschenberg

Michael Lisi/Contemporary Art United States

Artwork details

Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Title: Bulkhead (Day Lights)
Description: Commissioned by the United Nations in 1994, Robert Rauschenberg created Bulkhead (Day Lights) commemorating the UN's International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo, Egypt from September 5-13 in 1994. This color lithograph is hand-monogrammed, dated and numbered in pencil, measuring 12 x 8 ½ in (30.5 x 21.6 cm), unframed from the edition of 750. Published by the World Federation of the United Nations Association.
Date: 1994
Medium: Colour Lithograph
Edition: Edition of 750
Signature: Signed
Sheet: 12 x 8 ½ in (30.5 x 21.6 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.