
Plank, from XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno
A luminous lithograph rendered on Angoumois à la main paper, this work from Rauschenberg's celebrated series interpreting Dante's *Inferno* layers ghostly figurative imagery with gestural marks and atmospheric tonal washes. Rauschenberg's signature combine sensibility translates here into a haunting visual language that evokes the shadowy, dreamlike passages of the underworld without literal illustration. The delicate handmade paper lends the composition a fragile, almost spectral quality, reinforcing the work's meditation on suffering, transformation, and the boundary between the seen and unseen.
- Medium
- Lithograph, on Angoumois à la main paper, the full sheet.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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April 24, 2018
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