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Robert Rauschenberg
Samarkand Stitches #IV, from Samarkand Stitches
Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000
Sold For
$18,750
Lot Details
1988
Unique fabric assemblage with screenprint in colors,
61 x 40 in. (154.9 x 101.6 cm)
signed and dated `88' in embroidery on a fabric label, numbered `#41' in black ink on a fabric label stitched to the reverse, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their embroidered identification tag), lacking the original hanging rod.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Ikat silk fabrics imported from Samarkand were sewn together with domestic fabrics that had been screenprinted with photographic images taken during the artist's travels to the former Soviet Union.
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