Artist: Alessandro Biffignandi Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 10" x 15" (255mm x 375mm) Date: c. 1964 Code: BiffignandiCart
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Alessandro Biffignandi.
Wonderful work by Biffignandi, better known for his Fleetway Picture Library war covers. Here he depicts the entrance of a Roman road into a fortified town.
It comes from a series that ran in Treasure magazine explaining the history of Romano-Britain to younger readers. The life in the faces of the two men in the foreground is especially good.
The issue of Treasure is unknown, probably early in the series run, just dated April 27 on the reverse and noted as page 16.
Alessandro Biffignandi (1935 - 21 January 2017; Rome, Italy) Alessandro Biffignandi was one of Italy's finest painters of cover art and illustrations for comics and magazines. He was born in Rome in 1935 and died in Rome on 21 January 2017, aged 81.
He is primarily associated with his decade-long supply of cover art to British war pocket libraries published by Fleetway in the 1960s and his decade plus association with Italian erotic pocket books. His signature rarely appeared, so even in Italy he was little known and only in recent years has his work been celebrated.
He learnt the finer points of drawing at the Favalli studios. In 1960, he settled in Milan, where he started working for many important periodicals and publishers.
From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, he worked through the Milanese art agencies for the French market and for Fleetway in the UK. His covers for War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library are some of his finest paintings.
He painted covers for the pocket publications of the publishing house Lug, such as Nevada, Hondo, Kiwi, Yuma and Rodeo. He also drew some comics for the books, such as 'Flambo', 'Agent K-3', 'Peter Berg', 'John Kine' and 'Rombo Bill'.
In the late 1960s, he worked for the British Fleetway agency, doing painted covers of The Spider. Since the early 1980s, he has mainly been an illustrator and oil painter.
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