| ACHILLE BELTRAME (Arzignano, Vicenza 1871 - Milan 1945) LYING FIGURE Black chalk, watercolour, heightened with white; signed 'A. Beltrame' and monogrammed; 198 x 290 mm. A pupil of Giuseppe Bertini, in Milan, Achille Beltrame was the most famous and celebrated illustrator in Italy in the first half of the 20th Century. Beltrame edited most of the cover pages of the magazine 'La Domenica del Corriere', published by the Milanese newspaper 'Il Corriere della Sera', from its foundation in 1899 until 1945 |
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