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Original Comic Arts & Illustrations

Thursday 09 May 2024 e Friday 10 May 2024, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Nasica (Augusto Majani)

The Dreyfus affair and the spirit of Zola, primi del 900

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€ 300 - 500

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€ 360

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pencil, ink, watercolor and tempera on thin cardboard
25 x 33,5 cm
Original illustration created by Nasica during the early 1900s on the occasion of the resumption of the Dreyfus affair in 1903. << Zola's spirit: we will be able to get her out of the well, but not completely discovered...! Now take away that leaf from her, which is nothing more than hypocrisy! >>. Master at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna of Giorgi Morandi and Bruno Saetti, Nasica was among the most appreciated illustrators of his era, defined as the "caricaturist of intellectuals", he worked among others for the magazines Italia ride, Novissima, Fantasio, La Reading and the 20th Century. Slight crease at the bottom right corner. Signed.