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, “In Ring 3, Dante meets the traitors who feign hospitality only to betray their guests. They lie in the eternal ice with their eyes frozen shut, forbidden even to weep for freedom.”