Bidspirit auction | Tullio Pericoli

Tullio Pericoli - Tullio Pericoli (Colli del Tronto 1936) - Saul Steinberg, 2004. pencil on paper 21 x 30,5 cm Original illustration made by Pericoli in 2004 and used as the cover of the volume ”Tullio Pericoli - I Ritratti” by Adelphi in 2009. For Pericoli, the portrait is equivalent to ”a biography, different from the official one, a visual synthesis, a sort of face-summary, a face that resembles the real face, but is even more real because it tells its story”. Signed and dated.