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Fortunino Matania: A Charming Pencil Drawing
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Fortunino Matania: A Charming Pencil Drawing

1900 - 1920
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FORTUNINO MATANIA: a very fine original pencil drawing of a naked young woman, seated on an unmade bed, her hair up in a bun. Beautifully drawn and signed lower right. 19ins x 15ins (48.25 x 38cms) including the frame.

** Fortunino MATANIA (1881-1963) was the son of artist Eduardo Matania. At age 9 he designed an advertisement for soap and exhibited his first work in Naples at the age of 11. By the age of 14 he was helping his father produce illustrations for books and magazines.

At the outbreak of the First World War he became a highly sought-after and regarded war artist after which he really developed his career as an illustrator working for various magazines and designing posters, some particularly notable examples for coastal for resorts in England. He regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and was elected a member of the Royal Institute for Artists in Water Colours.

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Quiet Street Antiques of Bath has dated this piece to the 1910s.

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FORTUNINO MATANIA: a very fine original pencil drawing of a naked young woman, seated on an unmade bed, her hair up in a bun. Beautifully drawn and signed lower right. 19ins x 15ins (48.25 x 38cms) including the frame.

Fortunino MATANIA (1881-1963) was the son of artist Eduardo Matania.

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At age 9 he designed an advertisement for soap and exhibited his first work in Naples at the age of 11.
Quiet Street Antiques of Bath

By the age of 14 he was helping his father produce illustrations for books and magazines.

fig 1. FORTUNINO MATANIA: A CHARMING PENCIL DRAWING
fig 1. Fortunino Matania: A Charming Pencil Drawing

At the outbreak of the First World War he became a highly sought-after and regarded war artist after which he really developed his career as an illustrator working for various magazines and designing posters, some particularly notable examples for coastal for resorts in England. He regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and was elected a member of the Royal Institute for Artists in Water Colours.

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Quiet Street Antiques of Bath has dated this piece to the 1910s.

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SA402964
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1156
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