Animals drawn on paper from the 18th to the 21st century on display in Rome

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its opening, Paolo Antonacci’s gallery in Rome presents Animalia, drawings on paper from the 18th to the 21st centuries: sixty drawings depicting animals from the private collection of the well-known Roman antiquarian.

Among horses, foxes, owls, eagles, dragonflies and exotic animals such as lions, antelopes, elephants, snakes and panthers, works by artists such as Eugène Delacroix, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Man Ray, the Italians Duilio Cambellotti, Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Filippo de Pisis, Antonio Ligabue, Afro Basaldella, Dominic Gnoli, Colette Rosselli (a well-known illustrator who was Indro Montanelli’s wife) to contemporary Pietro Ruffo and many others.

Drawings all strictly with cherry wood frames of Biedermeier taste, never exhibited to the public until now in their entirety.

The exhibition, scheduled from May 26 to June 28, 2023, will be open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Animals drawn on paper from the 18th to the 21st century on display in Rome

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