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Audrey Hepburn on the terrace of the Restaurant Hammetschwand in Switzerland, circa 1955.

Audrey Hepburn in a hair test for War and Peace

What do you need to transform a de Kooning into a Rauschenberg? 1 month and 40 erasers. In 1953, Rauschenberg asked artist Willem de Kooning, an Abstract Expressionist painter whom he admired, for a drawing to erase. De Kooning agreed, selecting a drawing that he thought would be particularly difficult to rub out. Rauschenberg claimed that it took him a month, and about 40 erasers, to complete the job. He kept the erased drawing in his studio for two years. In 1955, when he was invited to submit a drawing to show at the Elinor Poindexter Gallery, Jasper Johns persuaded him to exhibit it. Johns placed the drawing in a gold frame and produced the work’s inscription. See more Rauschenberg: Among Friends collaborations at mo.ma/2s54Npr. … [Robert Rauschenberg with Willem de Kooning and Jasper Johns. Erased de Kooning Drawing. 1953. A de Kooning drawing, graphite, and other media on paper, erased by Rauschenberg and mounted in a gilded wood frame with label inscribed using a metal template in blue ink on paper by Jasper Johns. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Purchase through a gift of Phyllis C. Wattis. Photo: Ben Blackwell. © 2017 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation]

Portrait of Amalia von Schintling by Joseph Stieler, 1831 (detail)

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Guillaume Seignac — Rêverie. detail. 1870-1924

Day Dreams (detail) Charles-Amable Lenoir

“Acorn Hill”. Photographed by James Perolls for Sleek Magazine

Ikenaga Yasunari

Rene Magritte

Basilica di San Pietro, Vaticano

Robert Motherwell’s Studio