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 original artwork from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, “The thieves are pursued by lizards and snakes, their own identity is repeatedly taken away from them. Rauschenberg symbolizes this with the bust of a powerful man who loses his head.”