Robert Rauschenberg
Paintings and Sculptures
1948–1953
53.045 / 66
66 Untitled (Scatole e Feticci Personali), ca. 1953
Plastic dome, rubber suction cup, wood, fabric, spring, metal part, and needle
Approx. h. 23/4 in. (7 cm), diam. 13/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Present whereabouts unknown
RRF 53.045


PROVENANCEGaps in the provenance are indicated by “(?)” for a single unidentified owner and “(. . .)” for multiple unidentified owners. See Guide.
Irene Brin and Gaspero del Corso, Rome, March 1953
Archivio dell’Obelisco, La Centrale dell’Arte, Rome, by 1997
Private collection, Milan, 2007
Present whereabouts unknown


EXHIBITIONS
1950s

Galleria dell’Obelisco, Rome, Bob Rauschenberg: Scatole e feticci personali, March 3–10, 1953. 

1990s

American Academy in Rome, American Art in Italian Private Collections, May 27–June 30, 1994. no. 11

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, September 19, 1997–January 7, 1998 (also Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, September 19, 1997–January 4, 1998, and Ace Gallery, New York, September 19–November 9, 1997). Traveled to Menil Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 13–May 17, 1998; Museum Ludwig, Cologne (as Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospektive), June 27–October 11, 1998; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (as Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospectiva), November 21, 1998–March 7, 1999. no. 42 (shown in New York only)



LITERATURE
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. 119, 137 n.p. (fig. 35)

Boyden, Martha. American Art in Italian Private Collections. Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1994. Exhibition catalogue. no. 11, n.p. (ill.), as Scatola Personale

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 42, p. 74 (pl. 42)

2010s

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. p. 81 (pl. 43) (not exhibited)

Caruso, Rossella. “Robert Rauschenberg alla Galleria L’Obelisco: Scatole e feticci personali.” In Irene Brin, Gaspero del Corso e la Galleria L’Obelisco, edited by Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo, Ilaria Schiaffini, and Claudio Zambianchi, pp. 204–15. Rome: Drago, 2018. p. 215