Milo Manara Omaggio a Tex Willer. Pencil, ink and watercolor on thin cardboard, signed. Estimate: $8,000-$18,000. Little Nemo image.
MILAN, Italy – October 2013 will be devoted by Little Nemo art gallery and auction house to the Myth of the West with a wide program of events ranging from exhibitions to an auction and the presentation of three high-profile new editorial products.
For 10 days, from Oct. 8 to 18 the comics museum in Milan, Wow Spazio Fumetto, will host an exhibitions of all Little Nemo Auction that will be held on Saturday, Oct. 19. The setup will include illustrated books, comic books, illustrations and original arts along with games, trading cards and cinema posters focusing on spaghetti Westerns. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.
For at least a quarter of a century after World War II, the West and its myth have embodied, in Italian culture especially if not in all Western countries, the ideal of ancient virility and noble moral values, that then seemed to be vanishing. History, when thinking of the American West, fades in its importance from the European perspective as it twists into pure mythology and the legends that sprung from the real facts become the creative ground of artists, writers and kids.
Little Nemo has been dealing with comics and cinema related collectables and art for the last 20 years and this monographic auction is combined with the presentation of three new editorial efforts: a portfolio by Sergio Tisselli, a new book on Tex Willer with watercolors by Giovanni Ticci and the deluxe edition of last year’s Texone by Fabio Civitelli. A fully illustrated catalog with section introductions by Giuseppe Pollicelli is available.
All 726 lots will be put under the hammer Saturday Oct. 19 from 11 a.m. (2 a.m. Pacific) to 1:30 p.m. and then from 2:30 to 7 p.m. in Milan, at Wow Spazio Fumetto, viale Campania 12.
ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE
Milo Manara Omaggio a Tex Willer. Pencil, ink and watercolor on thin cardboard, signed. Estimate: $8,000-$18,000. Little Nemo image. Buffalo Bill – Col. William Frederic Cody. Portrait of Buffalo Bill with typical broad-brimmed hat. Stacy’s Brooklyn imprint. Buffalo Bill’s printed signature on the back. Estimate: $300-$450. Little Nemo image. ‘The Good, the Bad, the Ugly’ extremely scarce first-edition two-sheet movie poster. Small professional restoration, hanging marks. Near mint. Estimate: $2,500-$5,000. Little Nemo image. Hugo Pratt, Gen. Custer. Pencil, ink and watercolor on cardboard. Exhibited at Palazzo Squarcialupi, Siena, in 2005. Estimate: $6,400-$13,500. Little Nemo image. Benito Jacovitti Cocco Bill così e cosà. Art published on ‘Il Giorno dei Ragazzi,’ 1966. Pencil and ink on drawing paper. Watercolored on the back. Very good condition. Estimate: $4,900-$8,000. Little Nemo image. Magnus – Giovanni Romanini Tex. Elaborate and rich illustration for the study of the characters. Pencil, green pencil, ink and white tempera on color cardboard. Scroll-signed ‘Magnus e Romanini Enterprises’ and signed a second time ‘Magnus’ on the drawing. Estimate: $8,000-$16,000. Little Nemo image.
