Satiric Scene for L'Asino

Satiric Scene For l’asino  is an original drawing in pencil and pen on the wooden panel realized by  Gabriele Galantara.

The state of preservation of the artwork is good.

The artwork represents a dancing woman with a big hand behind her, expressed through confident strokes in a satiric manner, a study for the  "l'asino"  Italian magazine.  Gabriele Galantara  (1867-1937), journalist and one of the major Italian caricaturists and satirical designers. The Donkey was a  political satire magazine  in 1892, the year of the first Giolitti ministry and the establishment of the Italian Socialist Party, The magazine was conceived by Guido Podrecca,and by Gabriele Galantara,  brilliant cartoonist and puppeteer , also a socialist. The two assumed the pseudonyms of "Goliardo" (Podrecca) and "Rata Langa" (Galantara), and with these nicknames, they signed the issues of the weekly.