73 Untitled (Scatole e Feticci Personali), ca. 1953

Wood, string, wool, bone, feathers, bells, and bead (?)

Dimensions unknown

Presumed destroyed

RRF 53.067

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

1990s

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). n.p. (fig. 32)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 135 (pl. 83), 137 (pl. 85) (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. 35)

2010s

Craft, Catherine. Robert Rauschenberg. London: Phaidon, 2013. p. 39 (no. 33 [install])

Nesin, Kate. Cy Twombly’s Things. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. p. 112 (fig. 40)