Rauschenberg Ace Gallery Poster SIGNED Rare! Original 50"x36" Exhibit Poster Autographed Start Price USD 6,000.00 Current Price USD 6,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 9,000.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, May 14, 2008 End Time Saturday, May 24, 2008 Location Los Angeles, CA See more about 'Rauschenberg Ace Gallery Poster SIGNED Rare! ' Description Robert Rauschenberg Rare SIGNED Ace Gallery PosterIn 1977, I was the publisher of a newspaper called the Connoisseur that was distributed at Santa Monica College. I obtained a press pass for the opening of the Rauschenberg exhibit at the Ace Gallery. At the opening I purchased one poster at 50"x36" and one poster at 72"x50". Both posters were unsigned. When I got close enough to ask Mr. Rauschenberg to sign the posters, he looked down at his drink and said, "If you have some ice in your pocket for my drink, I'll sign your posters." Later at the same event, I noticed that he was signing posters for a couple of young women who approached him. I sent my girlfriend over to him with the posters and he signed them for her as well. Based upon this observation only, I'm inclined to believe that there are very few of these signed posters in existence. I am offering for sale an original SIGNED version of the poster. The poster itself is beautiful, the colors are strong, and it is an excellent example of Rauschenberg's work. It is the same image that appears on the cover of "Rauschenberg Posters," a book by author Marc Gundel. It can also be seen on episodes of the TV series "Frazier". It hangs on Frazier's apartment wall, just to the right of the living room's large center windows.• Exhibit: Ace Gallery, Venice, California, 1977 • Original Exhibit Poster, Museum Mounted & Framed• Original Signed Autograph• Condition: Excellent • Size: 50" x 36"SHIPPING: We ship worldwide. For anywhere in the U.S., we ship using FedEx ground, fully insured. SELLER'S PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS: We accept PayPal, Cashier's Checks, Money Orders and Personal Checks. Checks will require a 10 day clearance before merchandise is sent. Foreign checks will take longer. Artwork shipped to California residents to pay local sales tax.RETURN POLICY: We offer a refund (minus shipping and ebay fees), within seven days of arrival, if the purchase arrives and you are unsatisfied with your purchase. Item must be returned in the same condition as shipped (which is excellent).PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS BEFORE CLOSE OF AUCTION.See N.Y. Times Article Excerpts Below:Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 By Michael KimmelmanNew York Times, Published: May 14, 2008Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82. A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked. Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he helped obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life.Mr. Rauschenberg was also instrumental in pushing American art onward from Abstract Expressionism, the dominant movement when he emerged, during the early 1950s. He became a transformative link between artists like Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning and those who came next, artists identified with Pop, Conceptualism, Happenings, Process Art and other new kinds of art in which he played a signal role. Place a Bid!