Pencil signed, edition number & dated lower margin: Rauschenberg, 33/90, 84. Sight: H: 23; W: 18 1/4 inches. Frame: H: 27; W: 22 1/8 inches. Prov: Acquired directly from artist at Galerie Maeght, St Paul de Vence France. RR attended his solo show opening. Condition: Excellent. Shipping weight: 7 lbs Born Milton Rauschenberg in Texas in 1925. He attended Kansas City Art Institute in 1947, and then the renowned Academie Julian in Paris in 1948. He returned to the United States to attend Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1949. There he studied under abstract painter Josef Albers. There, too, he formed professional relationships with avant-garde composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Rauschenberg continued on to New York City, where he studied at the Art Students League until 1952. From then until 1953, he traveled in Northern Africa and Italy. ?Robert Rauschenberg is regarded as a tremendously influential force in twentieth-century art.