ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945)
A - from the series FROMMEDEEARTH
(i) signed, titled and dated 1972 (on the artist's label attached to the reserve)
(ii) signed, titled and dated 1973 (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
ink, pastel, gouache and collage on paper
49.5 x 36.2 cm (19 1/2 x 14 1/4 in)
(2)

'The original idea for this series was fifteen random letters – FROAMMEDEEARHTH – suggested by Robert Rauschenberg, which you could combine in different ways to make different meanings. From this idea I made fifteen collages, each containing one of the letters.'

Robert O'Rorke

We are grateful to Mr O'Rorke for the assistance in cataloguing this lot