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Robert Rauschenberg
Samarkand Stitches #IV, from Samarkand Stitches
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.
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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.