Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008)
text by Andrei Voznesensky (Russian, 1933-2010)
printed by Thomas Cox and Bill Goldston
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)
Darkness Mother
INV-9928
Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008)
text by Andrei Voznesensky (Russian, 1933-2010)
printed by Thomas Cox and Bill Goldston
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)1978
lithographprint
Date
1978
Medium
Color photolithograph and lithograph from three stones on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 47 × 47 cm (18 9/16 × 18 9/16 in.); Sheet: 70.7 × 51.1 cm (27 7/8 × 20 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; purchased with funds provided by supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
Six prints are the result of a chance meeting between Robert Rauschenberg and the Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky that was cleverly orchestrated by Tatyana Grosman. The artist and the poet worked side by side in the production of these works in a true collaboration. Although it represents the unlikely partnership of an artist from Texas and a poet from the Soviet Union, the two worked well together, and their finished prints were exhibited at the legendary Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1979.
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