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Guido Crepax & the Great Masters of Eroticism

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Guido Crepax

Valentina - Vita privata, 1975

Estimate

€ 5.500 - 9.000

Sold

€ 6.600

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

pencil and ink on cardboard
36,5 x 51 cm
Original comic art made by Crepax for "Vita privata", published for the first time on page 18 in the volume Diario di Valentina by Milano Libri in 1975. Signed and dated.

Specialist Notes

This pageis part of a group of seven pages dedicated to the stories that see Valentinatormented by the witch Baba Yaga who tries to subdue her to her will (for some,the most beautiful and paradigmatic cycle designed by Crepax). Particular arethe points of view (like the first image, taken from below), the cut of thevignettes (oblique, angular, some triangular and others extremely jagged), andthe montage of the sequence, with figures that often border between a vignetteand the other suggesting a crazy and unbridled scene. A wildness that Valentinasuddenly dampens with her "I don't remember" which is equivalent toan omission.