“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)”

— Robert Rauschenberg

from Selections from the Ileana and Michael Sonnabend Collection, Sam Hunter, exhibition catalogue The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1985 p. 21
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American artist 1925–2008

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