[from the pressrelease]
Regarded as among the most influential and iconoclastic artists of his day, Rauschenberg’s best known work is characterised by a fascination with and appropriation of contemporary media, which can be seen throughout the transfer drawings. Whilst the drawings anticipate his silkscreen paintings of 1962–64, they are also amongst Rauschenberg’s most original and playful works and represent a true innovation in the history of drawing technique.

The exhibition is comprised of over thirty drawings, a sizeable percentage of the total number created in these decades. It will include several works on loan from important international collections, and an equal number of exceptional works presented for sale, such as Headline (1962), previously part of the collection of Andy Warhol and shown at the Whitney Museum in the year it was made, and Complete Relaxation (1958), from the year Rauschenberg began his 34 drawings for Dante’s Inferno (collection Museum of Modern Art, NY).