The Wake Up

The wake up is an original drawing in pencil and china ink realized by Gabriele Galantara in 1910 for the front of a new newspaper.

Titled in Italian "La Sveglia".

The state of preservation of the artwork is good and aged with irregular margins.

Included a Passepartout: 35 x 50 cm

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.