Robert Rauschenberg

Sphinx's Atelier

1998

Collage showing firefighters carrying a yellow stretcher through rubble amid urban and desert images.
Collage showing firefighters carrying a yellow stretcher through rubble amid urban and desert images.

Robert Rauschenberg, Sphinx's Atelier, 1998. Vegetable dye transfer on rag paper mounted on polylaminate, two parts, overall: 123 9/16 × 120 9/16 in. (313.9 × 306.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund 99.46a-b. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Not on view

Date
1998

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Vegetable dye transfer on rag paper mounted on polylaminate, two parts

Dimensions
Overall: 123 9/16 × 120 9/16 in. (313.9 × 306.2 cm)

Accession number
99.46a-b

Series
Anagrams (A Pun)

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund

Rights and reproductions
© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
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