Camicia Nera Original Illustration
Original gouache and pencil on kraft paper of ‘Camicia Nera’ by Paolo Garretto, made for the poster and book cover of the same name. Fascist-futurist work from the 1930’s emblematic of the era. Discovered in Milan in 2025, this is the original illustration and only example of it known to exist.
Created in honor of Italy’s all-volunteer Fascist paramilitary ‘Blackshirts’, officially known as the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN).
Paolo Garretto was a famous Italian artist whose illustrations appeared on the covers of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Fortune, amongst other prominent magazines. He was interned as a political prisoner in 1942 for refusing to produce caricatures for the Nazi Party and released again at the end of the war. He remained active thereon, illustrating for the Italian magazine Epoca while living Monaco until passing away from cancer in 1989.
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Original gouache and pencil on kraft paper of ‘Camicia Nera’ by Paolo Garretto, made for the poster and book cover of the same name. Fascist-futurist work from the 1930’s emblematic of the era. Discovered in Milan in 2025, this is the original illustration and only example of it known to exist.
Created in honor of Italy’s all-volunteer Fascist paramilitary ‘Blackshirts’, officially known as the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN).
Paolo Garretto was a famous Italian artist whose illustrations appeared on the covers of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Fortune, amongst other prominent magazines. He was interned as a political prisoner in 1942 for refusing to produce caricatures for the Nazi Party and released again at the end of the war. He remained active thereon, illustrating for the Italian magazine Epoca while living Monaco until passing away from cancer in 1989.
