EXTRACTS: The Art of Fortunino Matania: A Catalogue © 2016 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

The Illustration Art Gallery presents 52 Fig 94 Matania’s images were used in many different forms and places. Here is a selection of his World War One paintings reproduced on “cigarette” cards from a series of 32 “Thrilling Scenes from the Great War” presented with the Triumph boys comic 1927.