Robert Rauschenberg
Paintings and Sculptures
1948–1953
50.004 / 13
13 Title unknown, 1950
Plaster, glass tube, glass bottles, twig, and arrow fletching
471/4 × 123/8 × 53/4 in. (120 × 31.5 × 14.7 cm)
Cy Twombly Foundation
RRF 50.004

Inscribed on plaster: RAUSCHENBERG 50

Alternate Title: The Man with Two Souls


PROVENANCEGaps in the provenance are indicated by “(?)” for a single unidentified owner and “(. . .)” for multiple unidentified owners. See Guide.
Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly Foundation, bequest, 2011


EXHIBITIONS
2020s

Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Fünf Freunde: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly (Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly), April 10–August 17, 2025. Traveled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne, October 3, 2025–January 11, 2026. 

Gagosian Gallery, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: Important Early Works from the Cy Twombly Foundation, April 25–September 26, 2026. 



LITERATURE
1990s

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 13, 28–31, 31 (fig. 24), 44, 55 (pl. 19), 114, as The Man with Two Souls (not exhibited)

Smith, Mark L. “Image and Word in the Prints of Robert Rauschenberg, 1951–1981.” PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1992. ProQuest (304034847). p. 276, as The Man with Two Souls

Wainwright, Lisa. “Reading Junk: Thematic Imagery in the Art of Robert Rauschenberg from 1952 to 1964.” PhD diss., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1993. ProQuest (304050074). pp. xiii, 62, 111–12, 115–16, as The Man with Two Souls

2000s

Schimmel, Paul. Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 200, 201 (ill.), as The Man with Two Souls (not exhibited)

2010s

Davidson, Susan. “Mother of God.” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. as The Man with Two Souls

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 66, 68 (fig. 8), as The Man with Two Souls (not exhibited)

2020s

Stemmrich, Gregor. Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (1953): Modernism, Literalism, Postmodernism. Translated by Steven Lindberg. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023. pp. 114 (fig. 46), 115 (fig. 47), 237–38, 605, as The Man with Two Souls

Dziewior, Yilmaz, and Achim Hochdörfer, with Arthur Fink, eds. Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly. Munich: Museum Brandhorst; Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 2025. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 50, 85 (ill.)