1967
Edition Size: 38, plus proofs
Sheet Size: 71 3/4 x 35 1/2 inches cm
Reference: Gemini 41.9
Signed
Condition: Pristine
Robert Rauschenberg
Booster
1967
Medium: Lithograph with screenprint
Sheet size: 71 3/4 x 35 1/2 inches
Frame size: 74 3/4 x 39 5/8 inches
Printer and Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Edition size: 38, plus proofs
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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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.
