signed and dated in the imprint

from “Le 34 tavole di Robert Rauschenberg per l ́Inferno di Dante”, edited in 1965 by Edizioni Macorini, Milan, based on the 1958-59 originals from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Dante and Virgil flee past the Minotaur into the 7th circle of the violent, divided into three rings. In the first ring, murderers, warmongers, plunderers and tyrants are plunged into the Phlegethon, a river of boiling blood and fire (bottom right).”