MANARA Lot n° 155

MILO MANARA An Indian Summer, Casterman 1987 Original strip n°2 of the plate n°32, prepublished in Corto n°3 in September 1983. India ink on paper 48 × 21.8 (18.9 × 8.58 in.) One of the masterpieces of the two authors, a powerful evocation of the beginnings of the colonization of the New World in the 17th century. The torrent of human passions slides over a still dominant nature, sumptuously suggested by a Manara at his zenith. The association of the two giants of the 9th art finds all its sense in the combination of Pratt's narrative genius, subtly interrupted in the course of the boxes, to leave all its field to the graphic ambition of Manara. F.G.