2 Robert Rauschenberg prints from XXXIV Drawings for Dante’s Inferno:
- Canto X: Circle Six, The Heretic. (original work 1959-60, executed via solvent transfer on paper, with watercolor, pencil, gouache, and crayon)
- Canto XVI: Circle Seven, Round three, The Violence against nature and art. (original work 1959-60, executed via solvent transfer on paper, with watercolor, wash, pencil, colored pencil, and gouache)
Born with the name Milton Rauschenberg in Port Arthur, Texas, Robert Rauschenberg became one of the major artists of his generation and is credited along with Jasper Johns of breaking the stronghold of Abstract Expressionism. He was known for assemblage, conceptualist methods, printmaking, and willingness to experiment with non-artistic materials--all innovations that anticipated later movements such as Pop Art, Conceptualism, and Minimalism.
Data: print size 11.5" x 14.5” (mounted on Crescent Museum Rag Board, 16 x 20"), color offset lithograph on paper, data on back sides from Dranoff Fine Arts, NY
Condition: these prints have been removed from original folders (originally "tipped in" at four corners), some surface damage/loss on verso side from this removal (see photos), some adhesive residue on back side edges from previous hinging, prints have been newly hinge mounted on Crescent Museum Rag Board
Origin: published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
printed by Smeets Offset, 1965, ©1964, sold by Dranoff Fine Art, NY, ca. 2000
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