Will Eisner's self-portrait donated to the Uffizi. In exchange in Lucca a drawing attributed to Agostino Carracci.

Last year fifty-two self-portraits by some of Italy’s best-known comic book artists entered the Uffizi Galleries ’ collection thanks to an agreement between the Florentine museum and Lucca Comics, one of the world’s most important events dedicated to comics. Now, as part of Lucca Comics & Games 2022, theself-portrait of Will Eisner (New york, 1917 - Lauderdale Lakes, 2005), one of the fathers of world comics and inventor of the masked detective The Spirit, also officially enters the Uffizi’s collections.

Lucca Comics & Games has in fact acquired from Denis Kitchen, Will Eisner’s longtime curator, the famous self-portrait in which the American cartoonist portrayed himself along with his most famous detective, and donated it to the Uffizi Galleries.

In return, the Florentine museums are exhibiting for the first time one of their works of ancient art in the realm of comic books: they have symbolically brought to the Doge’s Palace, for the duration of this edition of the comic book event, the drawing attributed to the seventeenth-century Bolognese painter Agostino Carracci, which will be displayed face to face with Eisner’s work, before the latter enters the Uffizi’s collection.

Will Eisner's self-portrait donated to the Uffizi. In exchange in Lucca a drawing attributed to Agostino Carracci.

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