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Los Angeles Olympic Games Poster

Robert Rauschenberg

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Artist
Robert Rauschenberg
Title
Los Angeles Olympic Games Poster
Description

Los Angeles Olympic Games Poster

By Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) was a groundbreaking American artist who blurred the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and everyday life. He is best known for his "Combines"—hybrid works that merged traditional art materials with found objects like furniture, newspapers, and clothing. Rauschenberg challenged conventional art norms and played a key role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. His experimental spirit and use of unconventional materials had a lasting influence on contemporary art.

1982

Offset lithograph on wove paper

61 x 91.4 cm

Edition of 750 with only 200 hand-signed examples

Hand-signed by Rauschenberg

Unframed and excellent condition as issued 
Date
1982
Medium
Offset Lithograph
Edition
750
Signature
Signed
Sheet
61 x 91.4 cm
Status
Available
Price
£3,300.00
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.

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