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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)

Mazzini's ghost, primi del 900

Estimate

€ 300 - 500

Sold

€ 480

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

pencil, ink, watercolor and tempera on thin cardboard
22,5 x 29,5 cm
Original illustration created by Nasica during the early 1900s depicting Vittorio Orlando introducing the ghost of Mazzini into a classroom as he hands the pupils the Duties of Man. 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. Signed.