Robert Rauschenberg

CY + RELICS - ROME, 1952 #13
1952

A black and white photograph featuring a large, fragmented marble hand with an extended index finger, part of an ancient statue, next to a standing man in profile who appears to be observing the relic. The background shows weathered walls, and the image includes inscriptions at the bottom indicating the subject and location as relics in Rome, dated 1952.
A black and white photograph featuring a large, fragmented marble hand with an extended index finger, part of an ancient statue, next to a standing man in profile who appears to be observing the relic. The background shows weathered walls, and the image includes inscriptions at the bottom indicating the subject and location as relics in Rome, dated 1952.

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Date
1952

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 15 15/16in. (50.6 × 40.5 cm) Image: 14 15/16 × 14 15/16in. (37.9 × 37.9 cm)

Accession number
93.57

Edition
13/25

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist and Pace/MacGill Gallery

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

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