Black Painting, 1952

East Building, Concourse - Auditorium Lobby

Medium

oil and newspaper on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 200.7 × 90.2 cm (79 × 35 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jasper Johns to the National Gallery of Art for the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection

Accession Number

2013.140.1

Artists / Makers

Robert Rauschenberg (artist) American, 1925 - 2008

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Inscription

upper right reverse, on the original canvas: RAUSCHENBERG / 52 / BLACK PAINTING; upper left reverse, on the lining, signed by the artist in 1984: BLACK PAINTING [each word underlined] / BOB RAUSCHENBERG / 1952

Provenance

The artist; by gift or trade c. 1959/1960 to Jasper Johns, New York;[1] gift 2013 to NGA.

[1] This information was provided to NGA by Jasper Johns; see the e-mail of 31 July 2014 from his studio assistant, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Johns, Jasper
Meyerhoff, Robert E.

Exhibition History

1996: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 131.

2009: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010, no. 93, repro.

2017: Robert Rauschenberg, Tate, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016-2018, no. 18 (shown only in San Francisco).

Bibliography

1996: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 131.