58 Untitled (Scatole e Feticci Personali), ca. 1953
Wood box, dirt, and glass eye (?)
Dimensions unknown
Presumed destroyed
RRF 53.057
PROVENANCEGaps in the provenance are indicated by “(?)” for a single unidentified owner and “(. . .)” for multiple unidentified owners. See Guide.
Rosina Donati Bryk, Florence, purchase, March 1953 (via Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Florence)
Presumed destroyed, by 1970
EXHIBITIONS
1950s
Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Scatole e costruzioni contemplative di Bob Rauschenberg, opened March 14, 1953.
Galleria dell’Obelisco, Rome, Bob Rauschenberg: Scatole e feticci personali, March 3–10, 1953. (likely shown)
LITERATURE
1950s
Volpe, Carlo. “Mostre d’arte a Firenze: Alla Galleria d’Arte contemporanea.” Il nuovo Corriere, March 25, 1953. p. 3
1990s
Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. p. 139 (pl. 86) (not exhibited)
2000s
Cullinan, Nicholas. “Double Exposure: Robert Rauschenberg’s and Cy Twombly’s Roman Holiday.” Burlington Magazine 150, no. 1264 (July 2008). p. 468 (fig. 36)
