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Firefighters

Artists: Niso Ramponi (All) , Kremos (All)

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Title:	Firefighters
Artist:	Niso Ramponi (All)
Artist:	Kremos (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,193
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	10/29/2019
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Description

Niso Ramponi, also known as “Kremos” (1924-2002), was a Roman illustrator who started collaborating with “Il Travaso” in 1948 when was already well-known as an animator (he was supposed to make a cartoon based on Federico Fellini’s screenplay, which unfortunately was never completed).

“Il Travaso” was a very popular, humorous weekly founded in 1900 under the title “Travaso delle idee”, a hotbed of Italian cartoonists and humorists, from Attalo to Jacovitti, from Umberto Onorato to Alberto Fremura, from Furio Scarpelli to Giammusso.

Kremos was nicknamed “Sovrano di donnine” (“King of the little ladies”) by his colleagues at “Travaso”, for the very curvaceous and provocative women he drew for the covers. His editors dubbed him The Scarlet Pimpernel born from a frustration of never knowing where Ramponi could be found, especially when deadlines loomed.

From the mid-1940s through the early 1960s, Ramponi’s work could be found everywhere from newspaper comic strips to movie posters to the covers of weekly magazines.

This is an amazing and funny cartoon that shows the sheer beauty of Ramponi's linework... he's undoubtedly one of the all-time very best artists in drawing the female figure.
Since it's signed "Kremos" (the artist stopped using this pseudonym in 1957 to avoid a copyright fight with a painter that used the same pen name) and also considering the style, we can indicatively date the piece to the early '50s.

The beautiful lady says (translated from Italian): "Thanks, but if it's not a problem for you, I would like to wait for the second trip of your colleague that's saving my aunt".

Also, in the additional images, a bonus sketch with the color indications.

Many thanks, Giacomo!

(and special thanks to Fabio)

Paper size: 26.2 x 36 cm

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William B.
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 10/29/2019

A MASTERPIECE!

Davide G.
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 10/30/2019

Lovely, fun and sexy. It's even better than the other Kremos' piece in your Gallery!

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