By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Marilyn's Last Will is an original conceptual artwork realized in 1980 by Sergio Barletta (Bologna, 20 November 1934).
Original collage (a colored t-shit and a newspaper clipping) on paper. The artwork is gluen on cardboard.
Signature, titled and dated on plate
Mint conditions (a fold on the lower left margin and yellowing of paper).
Sergio Barletta (Bologna, 20 November 1934). He made his debut at a very young age for the Saturday insert of the Gazzetta del Popolo Fuorisacco, and in the same years he collaborated with various magazines as an illustrator. In 1968 he created the comic strip Mr. Manager for Rinascita, but following the magazine's refusal to publish it as it was too politicized, the strip landed on the magazines Ca Balà and Eureka, to which he also contributed with self-contained tables. Subsequently he collaborates as a satirical cartoonist with Italian and European magazines. For his irreverent and merciless style he has been compared to Jules Feiffer...
Category
1980s Contemporary Rome - Mixed Media