22 Untitled, ca. 1951

House paint, enamel, crepe paper, newspaper, and mirror on canvas

297/8 × 41 in. (76 × 104.2 cm)

Private collection

RRF 51.010

Alternate Title: Composition

PROVENANCE

G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh, by 1960

Galerie Beyeler, Basel, purchase, ca. 1960

[probably Harold] Diamond, New York, purchase, November 28, 1962

Anne and William C. Janss, Palm Desert, Calif., purchase, ca. 1962 (via Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles)

Ira and Lori Young, Vancouver, purchase, 1981 (via James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles)

Private collection, purchase, 1984 (via Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.)

EXHIBITION

1960s

Kunsthaus Zürich, Thompson Collection, October 15–November 27, 1960. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (as Sammlung G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh/USA), December 14, 1960–January 29, 1961; Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (as Collectie Thompson uit Pittsburgh), February 17–April 9, 1961; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (as One Hundred Paintings from the G. David Thompson Collection), May 25–August 27, 1961; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy (as Collezione G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh, USA), October 16–December 15, 1961.

LITERATURE

1960s

One Hundred Paintings from the G. David Thompson Collection. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1961. Exhibition catalogue. n.p., as Composition

Fahlström, Öyvind. “En gata full av presenter.” Konstrevy (Stockholm) 37, nos. 5–6 (1961). p. 180

1980s

Feinstein, Roni. “The Unknown Early Robert Rauschenberg: The Betty Parsons Exhibition of 1951.” Arts Magazine (New York) 59, no. 5 (January 1985). pp. 128, 131 (fig. 7), as Composition I

Feinstein, Roni. “The Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg: The White Paintings, the Black Paintings, and the Elemental Sculptures.” Arts Magazine (New York) 61, no. 1 (September 1986). p. 36, as Composition 1

1990s

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). pp. 59, 67–68, 82, 110, n.p. (figs. 11, 11a [detail]), as Composition 1

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 30, 53 (pl. 17) (not exhibited)

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. xvi, 172–73