Le Renard (Love #2) by Federico Bertolucci - Original Illustration
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Le Renard (Love #2)

Original Illustration
2018
Pencil
29.7 x 21 cm (11.69 x 8.27 in.)
Added on 9/12/24
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Description

Le Renard (Love #2) , vignetta 151

Interior from the French silent series Love, by Frédéric Brrémaud and Federico Bertolucci.
The second volume, centered on the fox, offers a compelling meditation on the cycle of life and on Nature itself, dramatized through the eyes of a fox as it journeys across entire ecosystems and overcomes countless adversities to reach its destination.

This illustration isn’t particularly central to the plot, but I chose it because it beautifully showcases Bertolucci’s exquisite pencil work, rich in detail and subtlety. The fox is just beginning its journey, moving with quiet determination through the forest. The perspective is distant, allowing the forest to take up most of the space, stretching endlessly into the horizon.

"In the animal kingdom, animals neither love nor hate each other.
Love and hate are parts of a natural whole, a supreme balance many consider to be universal, or even divine.
An elemental love"

Inscriptions

Signed and dated (bottom right): Federico Bertolucci 2/18

Publication

  • Le Renard
  • Ankama Éditions
  • 08/2012
  • Interior page

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About Federico Bertolucci

Federico Bertolucci enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara in 1998. That same year, he was hired by Disney Italia as an artist for their magazines Topolino and Minnie. In 2001, he joined the art staff of the magazine 'W.i.t.c.h.', for which he has illustrated stories and covers. Bertolucci also also contributed covers and illustrations to 'Monster Allergy', as well as a series of short stories with 'The Flintstones' in Il Sole 24 Ore and the coloring for the comic adaptation of Disney's 'Lilo & Stitch'. He has cooperated with the French scriptwriter Frédéric Brrémaud on 'Richard Coeur De Lion' (Soleil, 2005-2007), 'Les Tennismen' (Bamboo, 2006), 'Rocambole de Ponson du Terrail' (Delcourt, 2009) and 'Love' (Ankama Éditions, 2011-2012).