See how this small 1952 collage reflects Rauschenberg’s Morocco travels and his use of humble materials, layering printed fragments onto the cardboard from laundered shirts.

Transcript:
There's a small work in a case, the only work in the case in the gallery called Untitled (Hotel Bilbao). This is from 1952. You might think it's related to the Guggenheim Bilbao, but actually not at all. If you look at the printed elements on that piece, you can see that this is a hotel in Morocco. This is a trip that Rauschenberg made in 1952. And he made a number of works in this series.

You'll notice this sort of what would seem to be poor quality brown paperboard in the background that another paper is mounted to. Those are actually sheets of cardboard that your laundered shirt would come back with. So, to keep your shirt stiff when they fold up your shirt, they would wrap it around this cardstock or paper board. Rauschenberg took these and did these collages directly onto them.

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