Test Stone #5

1967

Robert Rauschenberg

Associated Names
Robert Rauschenberg

Artist, American, 1925 - 2008

Robert Bigelow

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Octavio Pereira

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

The image includes abstract shapes and lines organized across the canvas. Two identical machine-like structures with curved arrows are at the top center, connected to labeled arrows with (S) and (F). Below them are textured rectangular forms with abstracted photographic elements. To the right, there is an irregular circular shape filled with swirling black. Near the top right, a small circle is rough and red with a textured border.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black and red on Rives BFK wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 51 x 38 cm (20 1/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1981.5.73

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1970, no. 44

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 1981 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 30.

1970

  • Foster, Edward A. Robert Rauschenberg: Prints 1948/1970. Minnesota: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970, no. 44.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 41.5. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

lower left on stone (reversed): Test Stone 5; lower right in graphite: Rauschenberg Gemini I 67; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 67-105

Markings

embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in black ink: Gemini G.E.L. / Los Angeles, Calif.

Wikidata ID

Q74035277

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