Robert Rauschenberg (AMERICAN, 1925-2008)
Trunk
Paper and fabric collage in colors on Xuan paper
1982
Dimensions: 43 x 30 7/8 inches (107 x 77 cm)
Full margins
From 7 Characters series
Published by Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles.
Gemini 1034
In overall good condition
A similar print was sold at Sotheby's New York for $18,000
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In 1982, Rauschenberg was one of the first artists from the West to visit the People's Republic of China. Under the auspices of his Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange (R.O.C.I.) involving 22 countries, Rauschenberg made the world his "studio" in order to forge communications with other nations through the language of art. In China, he commissioned local artisans to create the "7 Characters" series of unique collages, using all local materials. "Trunk" has a two-sided silk pendulum made of Chinese silk.

Robert Rauschenberg (AMERICAN, 1925-2008)

Robert Rauschenberg was born in Port Arthur, Texas with the name Milton Rauschenberg. He, along Jasper Johns and Robert Motherwell, is a pioneer of Abstract Expressionsm. Known for assemblage and collage, conceptualist methods, printmaking, and execution with innovation materials, anticipating later movements such as Pop Art, Conceptualism and Minimalism. After attending Kansas City Art Institute in 1947 and 1948 he briefly went onto Paris at the Academie Julian, and from 1948 to 1949 was at Black Mountain College in North Carolina with Josef and Anni Albers. He ended up here, in New York City at the Art’s Student’s League. He now is exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Guggenheim Museum, NYC, MOMA, NYC, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA, Guggenheim Berlin, Germany and Bilbao, Spain, Tate Gallery, London.