Hugo Pratt Hugo Pratt - Corto Maltese - Tango, 1985
pencil, ink and marker on thin cardboard
48 x 16,5 cm
Original strip n. 19 made by Pratt for the twenty-seventh Corto Maltese adventure, "Tango, " first published in the magazine Corto Maltese, Year III, n. 12, in 1985. One of the most intimate and poetic sequences in Pratt's entire oeuvre. Through the dialogue between Corto and a double crescent moon, the master of Malamocco reflects on the refusal to grow old, paying homage to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Dimensions
48 x 16,5 cm
pencil, ink and marker on thin cardboard
48 x 16,5 cm
Original strip n. 19 made by Pratt for the twenty-seventh Corto Maltese adventure, "Tango, " first published in the magazine Corto Maltese, Year III, n. 12, in 1985. One of the most intimate and poetic sequences in Pratt's entire oeuvre. Through the dialogue between Corto and a double crescent moon, the master of Malamocco reflects on the refusal to grow old, paying homage to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Dimensions
48 x 16,5 cm
