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Monogram

Artist Robert Rauschenberg (USA, 1925 - 2008)

Date1955-1959

MediumOil on canvas, printed paper, textile, paper, metal sign, wood, rubber shoe heel, tennisball, taxidermied angora goat with paint and painted rubber tire

DimensionsYttermått: 106,5 x 160,6 x 163,5 cm

ClassificationPaintings, Sculptures

Credit LinePurchase 1965 with contribution from The Friends of Moderna Museet (The Museum of Our Wishes)

Countries

United States

Object NumberNMSK 1963

CollectionsModerna Museets Vänner, The Museum of Our Wishes

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkMonogram is one of the works Robert Rauschenberg called “combines”, a kind of hybrid form of painting and sculpture. He found the angora goat in a store for second-hand office furniture. Rauschenberg often used stuffed animals in his combines, giving them a second life. In the collage-like painting under the goat, he has explored the relationship between the horizontal surface and the viewer’s bird’s eye perspective. An astronaut looks up at the sky, and a funambulist walks on a slack rope across an abyss. A baby’s footprint seems to signify a human being’s first painterly gesture. The work was named after the way the horned billy-goat and the car tyre intertwine, like the letters of a monogram.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad på undersidan: "RAUSCHENBERG 1959 "MONOGRAM"" Selected exhibition history Givet av MMV (1972) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Robert Rauschenberg: Combines (2007) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Implosion. Ett postmodernt perspektiv / A Postmodern Perspective (1987-1988) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Pop Art & Nouveau Réalisme, ur samlingarna (1991-1992) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Efterkrigstid till 1970-tal Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm 4 amerikanare; Jasper Johns, Alfred Leslie, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Stankiewicz (1962) Moderna Museet, Stockholm SPEKTAKULÄRA TIDER 60-talet ur Moderna Museets samling (den 26 december 2009 - den 27 februari 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2010 - Dubbla budskap (2010) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Givet av Moderna Museets vänner : [Moderna Museet : 22.1 - 13.2 1972]The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]Implosion : ett postmodernt perspektiv : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 24/10 1987 - 10/1 1988]Robert Rauschenberg: Combines [Moderna Museet 17/2 - 6/5 2007]4 Amerikanare : Jasper Johns, Alfred Leslie, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Stankiewicz : [Moderna Museet Stockholm 1962]Pop Art & Nouveau realisme : ur Moderna Museets samlingar : Moderna Museet 26.12.1991 - 09.08.1992

Works by the artist