Robert Rauschenberg’s Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno

Canto XXIX: Circle Eight, Bolgia 10, the Falsifiers: Class 1, the Alchemists

Robert Rauschenberg. Canto XXIX: Circle Eight, Bolgia 10, the Falsifiers: Class 1, the Alchemists from the series Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno. 1959–60. Solvent transfer drawing of printed images rubbed onto paper with a ballpoint pen barrel; with pastel, gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2" (36.8 x 29.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Given anonymously