signed and dated in the imprint

from “Le 34 tavole di Robert Rauschenberg per l ́Inferno di Dante”, edited in 1965 by Edizioni Macorini, Milano, after the 1958-59 originals from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.“ In the center of hell, condemned for his personal betrayal of God, is Lucifer. He has three faces, one black, one red and one yellow, in each mouth he gnaws a prominent traitor: Brutus, Longinus, and in the central mouth Judas. Dante and Virgil climb down Satan and leave hell, passing through the center of the universe and the gravity of the northern hemisphere of land to the southern hemisphere of water.”