© Robert Rauschenberg / Adagp, Paris, 2006
Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008). Satellite, 1955. Combine painting. 201.6 x 109.9 x 14.3 cm (79 3/8 x 43 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Satellite combines oil paint, fabric (note the sock), paper, and wood on canvas with a stuffed pheasant (with missing tail feathers).
"There is no poor subject. A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric." - Robert Rauschenberg quoted in the catalogue for "Sixteen Americans" (1959).
"There is no poor subject. A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric." - Robert Rauschenberg quoted in the catalogue for "Sixteen Americans" (1959).