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pencil and ink on cardboard
36,5 x 51 cm
Original comic art made by Crepax for "Private life", published for the first time on page 9 in the volume Diary of Valentina by Milano Libri in 1975. Crepax retraces the most important stages in Valentina's life, as if she were her psychoanalyst the author invites a naked Valentina, lying on her bed like Little Nemo, to reveal hidden truths, omitted details and unspeakable secrets; in this page we see "Valentina lost in the country of the Soviets", once she has come out of the bowels of the earth she finds herself reliving the years of the October revolution, an opportunity for Valentina to daydream her erotic visions indulging Crepax's passion for Russian history and iconography. Signed and dated.
36,5 x 51 cm
Original comic art made by Crepax for "Private life", published for the first time on page 9 in the volume Diary of Valentina by Milano Libri in 1975. Crepax retraces the most important stages in Valentina's life, as if she were her psychoanalyst the author invites a naked Valentina, lying on her bed like Little Nemo, to reveal hidden truths, omitted details and unspeakable secrets; in this page we see "Valentina lost in the country of the Soviets", once she has come out of the bowels of the earth she finds herself reliving the years of the October revolution, an opportunity for Valentina to daydream her erotic visions indulging Crepax's passion for Russian history and iconography. Signed and dated.
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