Mino Maccari, Female Silhouette, Original Watercolor Drawing, 1960s

Female Silhouette is an original drawing on paper, realized around the 1970s by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989). Watercolor drawing on ivory-colored and laid paper. Signed "Maccari" in black China ink fountain pen) on the lower right margin . Excellent condition, except for some usual wrinkles of the paper. with the incredible touch of the satitric illustrator of Il Selvaggio , this contemporray artwork, depicting three female silhouette and four children silhouette in a very stylized style, reveals the Maccari as talented draftsmen. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 – Rome, 1989). Mino Maccari was a popular Italian painter and engraver with a caustic personality, called in 1924 by Angiolo Bencini to collaborate as illustrator for the magazine Il Selvaggio, an admittedly intransigent fascist, revolutionary and anti-bourgeois magazine. Here Maccari published his first engravings. and after he took over the direction of the Savage which he held until 1942. In 1959, he became the director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome; in 1963, he won Antonio Feltrinelli's prize for painting and became president of the San Luca Academy in 1962. In the same year of one of the biggest Italian academic honor, Maccari managed to obtain a personal exhibition at Gallery 63 in New York. His production of drawings, watercolors, tempera, lithographs etc. is exhausted, sometimes in collaboration with prestigious publishing houses (Strapaese, Il selvaggio), of satirical, political or erotic subject matters.