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pencil and ink on cardboard
36,5 x 51 cm
Original comic art made by Crepax for "Valentina pirata", published for the first time on page 45 by Milano Libri in 1980. Signed and dated.
36,5 x 51 cm
Original comic art made by Crepax for "Valentina pirata", published for the first time on page 45 by Milano Libri in 1980. Signed and dated.
Specialist Notes
The thirdpart of this story is not a real dream but the fruit of the imagination of PhilRembrandt and Valentina who have fun hypothesizing a possible ending to thestory while flirting in their bed. Valentina imagines falling to Earth on herspace horse which saves her by cushioning the fall. In reality, the sensationof falling "dead body" coincides with his orgasm. Remaining in thefield of the symbolism of the many animals that populate this story, as in manyothers designed by Crepax, the horse represented for the author a noble andfaithful animal, capable of sacrificing its own life to save that of itsmistress. Crepax represents him majestic and Renaissance, but at the same timepainful, almost human. Not surprisingly, as a child he wrote in a school essay:"when I grow up I will be a horse!".
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