LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil, metal, fabric, wood, paper, twine, picture frame, shaving brush and tin can on masonite in artist's frame

Measurements:

55.98 in. (142.20 cm.) (height) by 48.23 in. (122.50 cm.) (width) by 6.89 in. (17.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

titled and inscribed 'This is Johanson's Painting' (upper right)

Exhibited:

Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Rörelse i konsten (Art in Motion), May-September 1961. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Biennale 1978: From Nature to Art, From Art to Nature, 1978, p. 32, pl. 63 (illustrated). Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Frankfort, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum and London, Tate Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg: Werke 1950-1980, March 1980-June 1981, pp. 335 and 386, no. 36 (illustrated in color). Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Rauschenberg, March-May 1984, pl. 5 (illustrated in color). Madrid, Fundación Juan March and Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Robert Rauschenberg, February-May 1985, cat. no. 12 (illustrated in color). Bordeaux, CAPC musée d'art contemporain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Art Cologne; Hamburger Bahnhof; Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna; Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto; Geneva, Musée Rath; Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art; Sendai, Miyagi Museum of Art; Hiroshima, Fukuyama Museum of Art and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Collection Sonnabend: 25 Années de Choix et d'Activités d'Ileana et Michael Sonnabend, October 1987-February 1991, p. 104 (illustrated in color). Baltimore Museum of Art, July 1990-March 2015 (on loan). Baltimore Museum of Art, Robert Rauschenberg Combines: Painting + Sculpture, December 2000-May 2001. Ohio, Wexner Center for the Arts, Part Object, Part Sculpture, October 2005-February 2006, p. 92 (illustrated in color). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Robert Rauschenberg Combines, December 2005-May 2007, pp. 178 and 307, pl. 155 (illustrated in color)

Literature:

A.R. Solomon, "Robert Rauschenberg," Louisiana Revy, September 1980, p. 33 (illustrated in color). The Sonnabend Collection: From Pop Art On, exh. cat., Electa, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1989, p. 63 (illustrated in color). J. Jäger, Das Zivilisierte Bild: Robert Rauschenberg Und Seine Combine-Paintings Der Jahre 1960 Bis 1962, Vienna, 1999, p. 47, pl. 18 (illustrated in color). B.W. Joseph, ed., Rauschenberg and Sweden: Essays, Documents, Comments, Stockholm, 2007, p. 74 (illustrated). Robert Rauschenberg & Jean Tinguely: Collaborations, exh. cat., Basel, Museum Tinguely, 2009, p. 101 (illustrated in color). R. Wetzel, "Robert Rauschenberg-Jean Tinguely: Collaborations," Artinside, 2009, p. 6 (illustrated in color)

Provenance:

The Estate of Ileana Sonnabend, acquired directly from the artist By descent to the present owner