Robert Rauschenberg

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (Texas, USA, 1925 - 2008).
"Solitaire", 1993.
Lithograph, copy 44/60.
Signed, dated and justified by hand.
Certificate enclosed.
The National Gallery of Art holds a copy of the same work from a run of 8.
Measurements: 47 x 36 cm; 77 x 67 cm (frame).

"Solitaire" by Robert Rauschenberg, whose title alludes to individuality, is a lithograph using image transfers exploring the interaction between art and everyday life. It is also the name of one of his most emblematic works, a 1953 collage depicting a playing card. The latter is a key piece in the transition between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, and is considered one of Rauschenberg's pioneering works.

Painter, sculptor and graphic artist, a pioneer of Pop Art in his early works, Robert Rauschenberg worked in all types of media, including photography, printmaking and performance. He received outstanding awards such as the National Medal of Art of the United States in 1993, as well as the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts in 1995. He began his career in Pharmacy and joined the Army, but finally decided to devote himself to art, developing his training at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Académie Julian in Paris. Finally he will extend his studies in the Black Mountian College of North Carolina, where he had as teacher Josef Albers, one of the founders of the Bauhaus. Between 1949 and 1952 Rauschenberg studied with Vaclav Vytlacil and Morris Kantor at the Art Students League in New York, where he met Knox Martin and Cy Twombly. Throughout his career, Rauschenberg's work underwent remarkable changes due to various influences, including Marcel Duchamp. He exhibited his work in leading galleries in the United States and Europe, beginning with his first solo exhibition in 1951. In early 1963 he had his first retrospective exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, and the following year he became the first American artist to win the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale. More recently, he has had retrospectives at prominent venues such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and has also held exhibitions at MoMA in New York, the Tinguely Museum in Basel, and others. He is currently represented at the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Berlin and Bilbao, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan and MoMA in New York, the Tate Gallery in London and other important collections around the world.