Satiric Scene for L'Asino

Satiric Scene For l’asino  is an original drawing in pencil and China ink realized by  Gabriele Galantara.

The state of preservation of the artwork is good and aged.

The artwork expressed through confident strokes in a satiric manner in a well-balanced composition, 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.