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    • Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925)
    Lot 223

    Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925)

    Photem Series 1 #29

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    USD 43,000

    Estimate

    USD 20,000 - USD 30,000

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    Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925)
    Photem Series 1 #29
    signed, titled and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 81 PHOTEM SERIES I #29' (on the reverse)
    gelatin silver print collage on board mounted on shaped aluminum
    48 x 23 in. (121.9 x 58.4 cm.)
    Executed in 1981.

    Provenance

    Galería Weber, Alexander Y Cobo, Madrid

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    Literature and exhibited

    Exhibited

    New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Photems, March-April 1981.
    Dallas, Allen Street Gallery, Photems, Series I, September-October 1984.
    Madrid, Galería Cobo y Alexander, Photems/Photographs, February-April 1993, p. 40 (illustrated in color).


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