Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Online Sale

Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Online Sale

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Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

Robert Rauschenberg

XXXIV Drawings for Dante’s Inferno

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September 30, 05:00 PM GMT

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5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

Robert Rauschenberg

1925 - 2008


XXXIV Drawings for Dante’s Inferno

signed in pencil and signed in ball-point pen by the publisher (on the justification); numbered 009 (on the colophon); each bi-folder titled in felt-tip pen Rauschenberg's Divine Comedy and inscribed Publisher's Proof (009) (one crossed out and re-written) and Abrams (on the versos)

the portfolio, comprising 34 facsimiles printed in colors on wove paper with Angoumois à la main supports, loose (as issued), contained in the original portfolio, lacking the lithograph

overall: 18 ¾ by 18 ½ by 2 ½ in. (47.6 by 47.2 by 6.5 cm.)

Executed in 1964, this work is a publisher's proof set aside from the numbered edition of 300, co-published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. and ULAE.

(34 works)

Harry N. Abrams, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Edward A. Foster, Robert Rauschenberg: Prints, 1948-1970, Minneapolis, 1970, no. 15