Caricatures

Caricatures   is a beautiful black China original drawing on ivory-colored paper, made by the Swedish illustrator and reporter  Adolf Reinhold Hallman  around 1930 ca.

Hand-signed on the lower right.

On the back the blue ink stamp  "Made in Italy by Adolf Hallman, 54 Via Margutta Roma".

The state of preservation is good except for some diffused foxing and a small cut on the lower right margin.

This artwork represents through satirical style, portraits of men by deft strokes in black ink.  Adolf Hallman  (1893 – 1968) was a Swedish illustrator who sensibly contributed to Swedish, Danish and Norwegian newspapers and magazines, including Tidens Tegn, Dagbladet, Exlex and Politiken. Among his books is På Boulevard Europa. He illustrated editions of Charles Baudelaire's  Fleurs du Mal and Guy de Maupassant's Boule de Suif.