1982
Sheet Size: 43 × 31 × 2 1/2 inches
Reference: G. 1038
Signed
Condition: Pristine
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Title: Red Heart (from 7 Characters)
Year: 1982
Medium: Silk, ribbon, paper, paper-pulp relief, ink, and gold leaf on handmade Xuan paper, with mirror, framed in publishers Plexiglas box
Unique from a series of 70 paper and fabric collages; signed and dated in pencil
Dimensions: 43 × 31 × 2 1/2 in (109.2 × 78.7 × 6.4 cm)
Certificate of Authenticity included
$7,000.00
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.
