Robert Rauschenberg

Throughout his six-decade career, Robert Rauschenberg has embraced pop culture, technical experimentation and material eclecticism. Today, he is perhaps best known for his radical, three-dimensional "Combines", which he composed from discarded materials and mundane objects such as sheet metal, newspapers, tires and umbrellas, and for his colorful silkscreens on which he silkscreened, then repainted, collaged photographs from books and magazines. In 1964, Rauschenberg made history by becoming the first American to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. Since then, Rauschenberg has had solo exhibitions at the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou and Moderna Museet, among other institutions. His work is held in collections around the world and has sold for tens of millions at auction.