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Original Comic Arts & Illustrations

Friday 19 May 2023 e Saturday 20 May 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Antonio Rubino

Lio Balilla, 1927

Estimate

€ 900 - 1.500

Sold

€ 1.080

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

pencil and ink on thin cardboard
36,5 x 40,5 cm
Original comic art made by Rubino for an episode of his Lio Balilla, published on the first page of the newspaper Il Balilla n. 10 year V in 1927. After nineteen years at the CdP, a real point of reference in the editorial staff of the newspaper, Rubino decided to leave the Milanese masthead to join the regime newspaper Il Balilla, pushed by a «absolute need to carry out my activity in a less apolitical field and in a more lively and combative way»; Rubino will work at Balilla for only three years, from ´27 to ´29, which makes the tables from this period extremely rare to find. Pin holes in the corners. Signed.