Mino Maccari, Standing Male Nude, Original Pencil Drawing, 1970s for sale at Pamono

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Standing Male Nude is an original pencil drawing on invory colored paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 – 1989). Signed “Maccari” in pencil on the lower right margin. Original title: Nudo maschile in piedi with the touch of the illustrator of Il Selvaggio, this contemporray artwork depicts a standing man reading, revealing the maccari as talented draftman! In excellent condition, with minor aging signs along the margins. 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.