Installation drawing for "Monogram" (1959), from The New York Collection for Stockholm

Monogram (1955–59) is one of Robert Rauschenberg’s “Combines,” groundbreaking works that fused painting and sculpture, using found objects and collage elements. The 1959 sketch that this print reproduces plots the installation of the work’s taxidermied Angora goat encircled by a tire, centered on two painted and collaged canvases as a platform. The Surrealists recognized resonances between Rauschenberg’s unexpected and often poetic juxtapositions of objects and their own approach to image making. In 1960, Monogram was reproduced in the Surrealist-adjacent journal Front Unique below a quote from Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky: “The Revolution must win for all men not only the right to bread, but also to poetry.”