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Narcissus, From Roci Usa (wax Fire Works)

Robert Rauschenberg

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Artwork details

Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Title: Narcissus, From Roci Usa (wax Fire Works)
Description: Artist: Robert Rauschenberg, American (1925 - 2008)
Title: Narcissus, from ROCI USA (Wax Fire Works)
Year: 1990
Medium: Acrylic, Enamel, and Fire Wax on Stainless Steel
Edition: 22; AP 3/5
Size: 96.75 in. x 72.75 in. (245.75 cm x 184.79 cm)
Date: 1990
Medium: Mixed Media
Edition: AP 3/5
Catalogue Raisonne: 0
Sheet: 96.75 x 72.75 cm
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.