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This Is What Made Robert Rauschenberg Throw His Paintings Into a River

Lost Masterpieces

At the end of a show in Italy, Robert Rauschenberg, faced with a stinging critique and steep shipping costs to move his works back home, threw all of it into the Arno River.

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