IAIA ERMANNO PIERO Science fiction illustration. Tempera on paper. Cm 40x29. Work by one of the great painters of Italian cinema. Author of the illustrations of cult films such as Mario Monicelli's 'The Great War' (1959) or Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Conformist' (1970), which were also "painted" by Piero Ermanno Iaia, a painter of cinema who narrated one of the greatest seasons of Italian cinema (but not only: his is also the Italian poster for Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho').

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