
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled
Robert Rauschenberg · 1955
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, sold to Suzi Gablik, New York, 1956 [this and the following according to letter from Jasper Johns, Sept. 22, 1997; original in curatorial object file]; sold to Jasper Johns, May 1967; by exchange to Brooke Alexander, Inc., 1989; sold to S. I. Newhouse, New York, 1989 [correspondence from Brooke Alexander, Oct. 14, 2016; copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, to Stefan Edlis, Chicago, 1996 [invoice; copy in curatorial object file], given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 21, 2015.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts Smithsonian Institution, Robert Rauschenberg, Oct. 30, 1976–Jan. 2, 1977, cat. 46; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 25–May 17, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 24–Aug. 21, 1977; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Sept. 25–Oct. 30, 1977; Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 3, 1977–Jan. 15, 1978.
- New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, Sept. 19, 1997–Jan. 7, 1998, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, Sept. 19, 1997–Jan. 4, 1998, and Guggenheim Museum at Ace Gallery, Sept. 19–Nov. 9, cat. 89; Houston, Menil Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 13–May 17, 1998; Cologne, Museum Ludwig, June 27–Oct. 11, 1998; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Nov. 21, 1998–March 7, 1999 (New York and Houston only).
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, Dec. 20, 2005–Apr. 2, 2006, pl. 32; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, May 21–Sept. 4, 2006; Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Oct. 11, 2006–Jan. 15, 2007; Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Feb. 17–May 6, 2007 (New York and Los Angeles only).
- London, Tate Modern, Robert Rauschenberg, Dec. 1, 2016–Apr. 2, 2017; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends,
- May 21–Sep 17, 2017; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules, Nov. 18, 2017–Mar. 25, 2018, cat. 101. (London and San Francisco Only).
Literature
Published references
- Andrew Forge, Rauschenberg (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969), 6 (ill.).
- Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1977), 90, no. 46, as Untitled, 1956.
- Charles F. Stuckey, “Reading Rauschenberg” Art in America 65, no. 2 (March-April 1977), 79 (color ill.), 83, as Untitled, 1956.
- Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg, Art and Life, 1st Edition (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990), 93 (ill.).
- Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 1997), 120, cat. 89 (color ill.), 121.
- Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospektive, exh. cat. (Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1998), 120, cat. 89 (color ill.), 121.
- Germano Celant, Merce Cunningham (Milan: Edizioni Charta, 1999), 110 (ill.).
- Branden W. Joseph, Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003), 148, 149 (ill.).
- Robert S. Mattison, Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003), 88, 110.
- Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg, Art and Life, Second Edition (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004), 93 (ill.).
- Dorothy Kosinski, Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2005), 70, fig. 12 (color ill.).
- Thomas Crow, Pontus Hultén, Branden W. Joseph, Paul Schimmel, and Charles Stuckey, Robert Rauschenberg: Combines (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005), 52, pl. 32, 53 (color ill.), 234 (color ill.), 235 (color ill. detail), 292.
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