Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance, developing the Combine as a form that refused the boundary between art and everyday life. His early exhibitions at Leo Castelli in New York and Ileana Sonnabend in Paris positioned him as a central figure in the transition from Abstract Expressionism toward what would become Neo-Dada and Pop. Works such as Monogram, Charlene, and Broadcast remain among the defining objects of postwar American art.

  • Robert Rauschenberg, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963 — exhibition catalogue, front cover. Staple-bound wraps, offset print, black and white. Title in French: Première Exposition (oeuvres 1954–1961), Seconde Exposition (oeuvres 1962–63). Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955–1959 — interior plate. Black and white photograph of the Combine: a taxidermied angora goat encircled by a rubber tyre, mounted on a painted flatbed base. Caption: "Monogram" · 1955–1959, 183 × 183 × 122 cm.

    Robert Rauschenberg — Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963

    Robert Rauschenberg — Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963