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An original hand-printed silkscreen by the great contemporary artist Robert Rauschenberg, American (1925 - 2008), which is signed by the artist in pencil, lower right and numbered in pencil, lower left. This is from his series entitled "Current and Surface" where he uses his famous collage process recreated with silkscreens.

Born Milton Rauschenberg in Texas in 1925, he received a sound art education. He attended Kansas City Art Institute in 1947, and then the renowned Academie Julien in Paris in 1948. Process, object, environment and artist intertwine in Robert Rauschenberg's work. He embodies most of the ideas of this century's modern art, yet his powerful, idiosyncratic works are like those of no other artist. Rauschenberg’s work is contradictory. He sees the artist as a participant or reporter rather than a creator, but the stamp of his style and personality is evident in each of his paintings. Though his is an art of the concept, the idea, there is evident enjoyment in his engagement with the medium of expression and the material world.

Whatever the judgment of later generations, Robert Rauschenberg is regarded as a tremendously influential force in twentieth-century art.