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, “On the monster Geryon, Dante and Virgil fly down the cliff to the usurers. Geryon is a symbol of the insincere swindler, with a pleasant head on a monstrous body.”