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In 1955, the American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) used a quilt, pillow, and bed sheeting attached to a plywood base as part of an artwork that used the fabric-based materials as a ground for his oil paint and colored pencil creation, named "Bed." The materials are believed to come from the artist's own bed.

Rauschenberg made a number of these mixed-media pieces, which he termed "combines." The "combines" related to both art and real life, which was part of Rauschenberg's artistic vision. He said, ""Painting relates to both art and life.... (I try to act in that gap between the two.)"

Bed was a gift to New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from Leo Castelli in honor of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

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