Stable Gallery, New York, Rauschenberg: Paintings and Sculpture, September 15–October 3, 1953. 

National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Robert Rauschenberg, October 30, 1976–January 2, 1977. Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 25–May 17, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 24–August 21, 1977; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., September 25–October 30, 1977; Art Institute of Chicago, December 3, 1977–January 15, 1978. no. 10 (not shown in New York)

Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, Robert Rauschenberg: Werke 1950–1980, March 25–May 4, 1980. Traveled to Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (as Robert Rauschenberg), June 7–July 13, 1980; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (as Robert Rauschenberg), September 20–November 23, 1980; Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, December 4, 1980–January 18, 1981; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, February 4–April 5, 1981; Tate Gallery, London (as Robert Rauschenberg), April 29–June 14, 1981. (shown in London only)

Nationalgalerie Berlin, Beuys, Rauschenberg, Twombly, Warhol: Sammlung Marx, March 2–April 12, 1982. Traveled to Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany, May 6–September 30, 1982. no. 52

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, June 15–August 11, 1991. Organized by Menil Collection, Houston. Traveled to Menil Collection, Houston, September 27, 1991–January 5, 1992; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 8–April 19, 1992; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 14–August 16, 1992; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, October 24, 1992–January 24, 1993. 

Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Twombly, Kiefer: Aus der Sammlung Marx, May 25–October 7, 2007. no. 23

Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart–Berlin, Die Kunst ist super!, September 5, 2009–February 14, 2010. 

Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart–Berlin, Black Mountain: Ein interdisziplinäres Experiment 1933–1957 (Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933–1957), June 5–September 27, 2015. 

Robert Rauschenberg. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1976. Exhibition catalogue. no. 10, pp. 4 (ill. [upside down]), 68, 68 (ill. [upside down])

Rosenberg, Harold. “The Art World: Souvenirs of an Avant-Garde.” New Yorker 53, no. 13 (May 16, 1977). p. 125

Robert Rauschenberg. London: Tate Gallery, 1981. Exhibition brochure. no. 5, n.p. (ill. [upside down])

Bastian, Heiner, ed. Beuys, Rauschenberg, Twombly, Warhol: Sammlung Marx. Munich: Prestel, 1982. Exhibition catalogue. no. 52, pp. 102, 103 (ill. [upside down])

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). pp. 107–8, n.p. (fig. 25 [upside down])

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 63, 68, 94, 95 (pl. 42 [upside down]), as Untitled [matte black with painted newspaper]

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. xiv, 125

Scholz, Dieter. “Robert Rauschenberg.” In Sammlung Marx, edited by Heiner Bastian, vol. 1, pp. 71–79. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1996. pp. 71–72, 76, 77 (pl. 15), as Untitled

Rosenthal, Stephanie. Black Paintings. Translated by Büro Sieveking. Munich: Haus der Kunst; Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. Exhibition catalogue. no. 11, p. 125 (pl. 11 [upside down]), as Untitled (matte black with painted newspaper) (not exhibited)

Bastian, Heiner, ed. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer: Aus der Sammlung Marx. Baden-Baden, Germany: Museum Frieder Burda, 2007. Exhibition catalogue. no. 23, p. 57 (ill.), as Ohne Titel

Blume, Eugen, Matilda Felix, Gabriele Knapstein, and Catherine Nichols, eds. Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933–1957. Berlin: Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Leipzig, Germany: Spector Books, 2015. Exhibition catalogue. p. 452, as Untitled (Black Painting)