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Detail of Robert Rauschenberg’s White Painting [three panel] (side view) showing evidence of repainting

Related to White Painting [three panel], 1951

Detail of Robert Rauschenberg’s White Painting [three panel] (side view) showing evidence of repainting

Related to White Painting [three panel], 1951

Robert Rauschenberg, White Painting [three panel], 1951 (detail of side)

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This side view of the first panel of White Painting [three panel] shows a ridge of paint that was left behind when the work was repainted. This slight build-up was created when the latex paint was pushed over the edge of the canvas with a brush, and it suggests that the panel was lying flat when the repainting took place. For further discussion of the work’s history of repainting, see the essay on White Painting [three panel].

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