Lot 270 : ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

Robert Rauschenberg - 1925

Auction Location: United States of America - 2006
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Description:

B. 1925
REGILAR DIARY GLUT

87 by 123 by 23 in. 221 by 312.4 by 58.4 cm.

signed, titled and dated 86.20 on a plaque affixed to the reverse

assembled and riveted painted metal

PROVENANCE

Richard Gray Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

EXHIBITED

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery; London, Waddington Galleries, Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts, November 1986 - December 1987, p. 7, illustrated in color (New York) and cat. no. 1, p. 5, illustrated in color (London)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Houston, The Menil Collection; Bilbão, Guggenheim Museum, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, September 1997 - December 1998, cat. no. 406, p. 471, illustrated in color; fig. no. 224, p. 582, illustrated in color (installation view, Leo Castelli Gallery, 1986)

LITERATURE

Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg/Art and Life, New York, 1990, p. 248, illustrated in color

NOTE

"To mark the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the independance of Texas, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston invited Robert Rauschenberg, himself a native of the Texas town of Port Arthur, to exhibit his more recent works produced since the Seventies. Rauschenberg's preperations for the project made him aware of the serious economic situation which prevailed in Texas. The oil market, the backbone of the the state's entire economy, had collapsed as a result of a glut of production, a surplus of supply which far exceeded the demand. The consequences of this recession could be seen everywhere. Skyscrapers stood empty, drilling rigs fell in to disuse, refineries stopped working, and gas stations went bankrupt and were abandoned. Wherever one went, one came across the 'crumpled remains of metal gasoline signs, license plates and the other detritus of gas stations. It's a time of glut. Greed is rampant. I'm just exposing it, trying to wake people up. I simply want to present people with there ruins."
(Robert Rauschenberg in Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg/Art and Life, New York, 1990, p. 246).