Details

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC #RR D-112) Victor and Sally Ganz, New York (acquired from the above in May 1964) Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1997) Sotheby's New York, 18 May 2017, lot 18 (consigned by the above) Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg , November - December 1961 Los Angeles, Dwan Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg , March 1962 New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Group Exhibition: Chamberlain, Higgins, Johns, Klapheck, Rauschenberg, Scarpitta, Stella, Tinguely, Tworkov , September - October 1962 Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The 28th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting , January - March 1963, no. 112, illustrated New York, The Jewish Museum, Robert Rauschenberg , March - May 1963, no. 41, n.p. (text) Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art: Dialogue between the East and the West , June - August 1969, p. 63, illustrated New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, String and Rope , January 1970, no. 14, p. 9, illustrated New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum SoHo; New York, Guggenheim Museum at Ace Gallery; Houston, The Menil Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum, and The Museum of Fine Arts; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; and Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective , February 1998 - March 1999 (traveled to all except New York)

Literature

James R. Mellow, ed., "New York: The Art World," Arts Yearbook 7 , New York 1964, p. 72, illustrated in color David Whitney, ed., Leo Castelli: Ten Years , New York 1967, n.p., illustrated (in installation at Leo Castelli Gallery, Group Show , September - October 1962) Joachim Jäger, Das zivilisierte Bild: Robert Rauschenberg und seine Combine-Paintings der Jahre 1960 bis 1962 , Vienna 1999, pl. 42, p. 133, illustrated in color (incorrectly dated 1962) Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (and traveling), Robert Rauschenberg: Combines , 2005-07, pl. 156, p. 179, illustrated in color and p. 307 (text)

Catalog summary

Collecting Passions - 20th Century Masterworks from an Important Private Collection Robert Rauschenberg 1925 - 2008 Rigger oil, metal, rope, wood, fabric, plastic buttons, paper, graphite and sand on canvas 102 by 60 by 10 ½ in. 259.1 by 152.4 by 26.7 cm. Executed in 1961. Provenance Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC #RR D-112) Victor and Sally Ganz, New York (acquired from the above in May 1964) Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1997) Sotheby's New York, 18 May 2017, lot 18 (consigned by the above) Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg , November - December 1961 Los Angeles, Dwan Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg , March 1962 New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Group Exhibition: Chamberlain, Higgins, Johns, Klapheck, Rauschenberg, Scarpitta, Stella, Tinguely, Tworkov , September - October 1962 Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The 28th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting , January - March 1963, no. 112, illustrated New York, The Jewish Museum, Robert Rauschenberg , March - May 1963, no. 41, n.p. (text) Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art: Dialogue between the East and the West , June - August 1969, p. 63, illustrated New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, String and Rope , January 1970, no. 14, p. 9, illustrated New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum SoHo; New York, Guggenheim Museum at Ace Gallery; Houston, The Menil Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum, and The Museum of Fine Arts; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; and Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective , February 1998 - March 1999 (traveled to all except New York) Literature James R. Mellow, ed., "New York: The Art World," Arts Yearbook 7 , New York 1964, p. 72, illustrated in color David Whitney, ed., Leo Castelli: Ten Years , New York 1967, n.p., illustrated (in installation at Leo Castelli Gallery, Group Show , September - October 1962) Joachim Jäger, Das zivilisierte Bild: Robert Rauschenberg und seine Combine-Paintings der Jahre 1960 bis 1962 , Vienna 1999, pl. 42, p. 133, illustrated in color (incorrectly dated 1962) Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (and traveling), Robert Rauschenberg: Combines , 2005-07, pl. 156, p. 179, illustrated in color and p. 307 (text)