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 meets his mentor Brunetto Latini among the Sodomists, who taught him how people strive for eternal fame – in Rauschenberg’s work, for example, top athletes at the Olympic Games. The fact that Latini is nevertheless to be found in hell shows that this striving is against nature.”