NEW YORK, N.Y.- Gagosian Gallery, in collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, presents “The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg,” selections from Rauschenberg’s personal art collection. This is the first time that Rauschenberg’s collection has been publicly presented and that an artist’s collection has been exhibited at the gallery. It follows the acclaimed introductory survey exhibition of Rauschenberg’s own work presented at Gagosian West 21st Street in 2010. Proceeds from the collection help fund the endowment established for the Foundation’s philanthropic activities. An artist’s collection is a rare resource, charged with anecdotes of how and why and where works were acquired, as well as whether they represented epistemic