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Rome, La margherita, 1945. 51 pages, mostly illustrated, 250x340 mm. Marginal browning, editorial paperback, front cover entirely drawn in color by the artist, some minor defects. Copy no. 653/705.
Specialist Notes
"Renato Guttuso's masterpiece in book format, printed in only 705 numbered copies (plus ten not for sale). The artist had published several of these sketches in the pages of «L'Unità», during 1944, and they had been exhibited at the summer exhibition «L'arte contro le barbarie», organized by the same Antonio Trombadori who signs the preface here. But the operation that succeeds with «Gott mit Uns» is that of the artist's book: with the memory of Goya's «Désastres de la guerre», Guttuso creates a «savage series of drawings» in the words of the Australian writer Peter Robb masterfully laid out to create a climax that progresses from the realistic approximation of the first black and white sketches, becoming saturated with color and distorted shapes, with a comic-strip flavor, which actually explodes on the cover, literally covered by a monstrous deformed soldier covered in blood-red on a blood-red background. (...)" (Libreria Pontremoli, online).
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