Jun 25, 2020 - Sale 2539

Sale 2539 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Pledge.

Color lithograph on J. Whatman 1956 paper, 1968. 705x450 mm; 27 3/4x17 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 3/35 in pencil, center right. Printed and published by ULAE, West Islip, with the blind stamp lower right. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early lithograph.

According to Foster, "Pledge and Promise, 1968 (Foster 65), also done with magazine transfers, were executed in the late summer of 1968 in conjunction with the exhibition of the large sculpture construction Solstice at Documenta IV in Kassel, Germany." Foster 64.