Menu for Chanterelle, with original offset-printed artwork by Robert Rauschenberg

New York: American Menu Printing, 2004. Offset printed menu on folded thick card stock (32 x 24 cm., folded). One of the later but most sought after in the famous series of arists' menus. With the names of the restaurant and artist printed in small letters on the rear panel of the menu, and a photograph of the fire hydrant painted by Robert Rauschenberg on the front panel. The interior contains the menu for November 22nd through December 18th, 2004. Karen and David Waltuck's Chanterelle was one of New York City's great restaurants, and via its location on Harrison Street, the first to bring fine dining downtown to Tribeca. The creativity of the Waltucks extended beyond the restaurant's food and spectacular service. They hosted annual fundraisers for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane dance company, and commissioned many artists to design specially commissioned menu designs. It's estimated that the edition size of the offset printed menus was approximately eight hundred. Additionally, a number of special event menus were silkscreened by Universal Limited Art Editions. Sadly, the restaurant closed its doors in 2009. Laid-in is the bill for a dinner on November 24, 2004, with the handwritten bill of fare. The bill itself is another artist's work, this one a photographic work by Jack Shear. A tiny bit of creasing to the folded edge of the menu, otherwise fine.