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Guido Crepax & the Great Masters of Eroticism

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Guido Crepax

La Marchesa di O..., 1996

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pencil, ink and watercolor on thin cardboard
36,5 x 50,5 cm
Original illustration made by Crepax for the novel "La Marchesa di O..." by Heinrich von Kleist, published on page 102 by Edizioni Nuages in 1996. Crepax chooses Kleist's best-known story to explore the feminine and eros in a story that is continually touched upon by the tragic. The color works of the Milanese master are of great rarity. Signed.

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With La Marchesa di O... Crepax chooses the best-known tale by Kleist to explore the feminine and eros in a story that is continually touched by the tragic. The overwhelming passions narrated in the story reduce the characters to sick skeletons, which are extinguished as oppressed by their own remorse. The Marquise of O ... represents the archetype of the Kleistian character, a character who suddenly realizes the contrast between the external world, regulated by the intellect, and the internal world, at the mercy of feelings.