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XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno

Title on Portfolio Cover: Drawings for Dante's "Inferno". Each portfolio includes (as written on the last page of the essay): 35 facsimile drawings Essay by Dore Ashton 1 signed copy of 1 out of 7 lithographs created by Rauschenberg for this album (not included in this copy). Each print is mounted in a folder that corresponds to one of the 34 cantos. The artist and the author of the essay used John Ciardi's translation of the "Inferno". The original drawings were completed between 1959 and 1960. They entered MOMA's collection in 1963, where they remain.

Department of Prints Leo Castelli Gallery New York NY (1964); Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. (1964-2010); Harvard Art Museum Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. in honor of Marjorie Cohn

Robert Rauschenberg (Artist) Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Publisher)

1964 20th century

American

Title: XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno

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Title on Portfolio Cover: Drawings for Dante's "Inferno".

Each portfolio includes (as written on the last page of the essay): 35 facsimile drawings Essay by Dore Ashton 1 signed copy of 1 out of 7 lithographs created by Rauschenberg for this album (not included in this copy).

Each print is mounted in a folder that corresponds to one of the 34 cantos.

The artist and the author of the essay used John Ciardi's translation of the "Inferno".

The original drawings were completed between 1959 and 1960.

They entered MOMA's collection in 1963, where they remain.

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