Arabic

Small format china ink drawing depicting a figure of an Arabic standing man. The stroke is very smart and defines the figure in a simple and elegant way. 

The work has been realized by the Italian artist  Bruno Angoletta  (Belluno, 1889 - 1954). He was an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and painter. He studied law in Padua but later abandoned his studies to entirely focusing on drawing and painting as an autodidact. In the late 1900s he started a collaboration as an illustrator with the satirical weekly magazine L'Asino, then he moved to Rome where he also began to collaborate with the magazine "La tribuna illustrate". In 1921, he founded with Antonio Beltramelli the monthly children magazine Giro Giro Tondo, published by Mondadori.