Untitled
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925–2008
1990
A lithograph by Robert Rauschenberg that assembles photographed and drawn fragments into a stacked, collage-like montage, aiming to recombine everyday images into unexpected, poetic associations.
You first notice a totem of disparate images—a leaping motorcyclist, a glowing sun disk, nighttime cityscapes, keys, hands and small sketches—arranged against a broad white field so their abrupt juxtapositions feel cinematic and improvised.
This piece translates Rauschenberg’s 'combine' approach into print, blurring photography, drawing, and painting and opening printmaking to collage, found imagery, and the associative logic that helped shape Pop art and later appropriation practices.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 25 13/16 x 19 7/8" (65.5 x 50.5 cm); sheet: 32 x 22 1/16" (81.3 x 56 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Joel Ehrenkranz
Accession
433.2010
Palette
Exhibitions
