Canto V/2: A Sinner’s Head

Silkscreen page proof approved by the artist and signed / initialled by him, taken from the original Talford Press edition of 185, printed on 100% rag, acid-free Inveresk (Somerset) paper

page size 39.5 x 31 cm

1979 – 1983

The judgement of Minos is represented as already having taken place within the sinner’s head. Dante was known to be a philanderer in his early years and this image uses a drawing of his exhumed skull as if to show him self-condemned.