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Robert Rauschenberg — Plank, from XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno
Robert Rauschenberg

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.

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April 24, 2018

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Robert Rauschenberg, 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.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Monochrome, Textural Composition, Mid Century Modern, Muted Earth Tones, Gestural Mark-Making, Figurative Abstract, Contemplative Mood, Neo-Dada, Male Artist, Celebrated Artist, Literary Illustration, Large Format Print, American Artist, Print On Paper, Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, Monochromatic, Celebrated Modern Master, Modern Master, Lithograph, Dante Inferno Series

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