• Front cover of Federico Fellini: dai disegni ai film. Grey background with large yellow title text. Below, multilingual subtitle in white. The lower half shows a photographic portrait of Federico Fellini beside a coloured caricature sketch with handwritten production notes.
  • Interior spread showing a black-and-white portrait of Federico Fellini with clown-like painted lines across his face on the left page. Right page features Italian text and a loose black-ink sketch of a figure in an overcoat, viewed from behind
  • Book interior spread with text and three black-and-white film stills on the left page. Right page shows a pencil drawing of a group of stylised characters titled ‘I Parenti’, lightly shaded in grey.
  • Interior spread showing Italian text and a small black-ink drawing of a woman standing at the shoreline on the left page. Right page features a full-page black-and-white photograph of Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina, smiling and clinging to a wooden post.
  • Interior spread with two large black-ink character sketches. Left page shows a stylised female figure with heavy shading and the handwritten name ‘Anita’. Right page shows a grinning, exaggerated face with fringe-like black strokes beneath. French text printed above.
  • Interior spread combining text, small film stills, and caricature drawings. Right page includes a black-and-white photograph of a woman in costume, a smaller portrait of a man in a top hat, and a large coloured caricature of an older woman in a green hat and fur-trimmed dress.
  • Interior spread showing a coloured caricature of an older woman in a headscarf with handwritten notes on the left page, alongside two small black-and-white film stills. Right page features a large abstract figure in yellow, black and blue with additional handwritten annotations.
  • Interior spread with a pencil drawing of a woman descending a staircase, viewed from behind, on the left page. Right page contains a list of Fellini’s films and works shown in the exhibition, printed in multiple columns. A small black-and-white photograph of a costumed performer appears above.
  • Interior spread showing a coloured caricature titled ‘Vernacchio’ on the left page, depicting a heavyset figure in theatrical costume. Right page shows a coloured sketch labelled ‘Cabiria’ beside two small black-and-white film stills of characters in costume.
  • Interior spread with a full-colour film poster for La Strada on the left page, featuring Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart. Right page shows a coloured drawing of a young character in a striped shirt and green coat holding a small drum.
  • Interior spread showing two coloured drawings of the Grand Hotel on the left page, along with a small black-and-white film still. Right page features a large coloured painting of a ship’s bow cutting through waves, with dramatic white spray and deep blue water.
  • Interior spread with a detailed drawing of a theatre facade filled with small box seats on the left page, beneath a colour photograph of an ornate interior. Right page shows two character sketches: a small stylised head at the top and a coloured caricature of a seated woman labelled ‘La Donna Scancellata’
  • Interior spread showing three minimalist architectural set photographs on the left page and a pencil stage-layout drawing below. Right page features coloured sketches of a woman in a blue hat, a volcanic structure emitting smoke, and a small portrait of a blond character, each accompanied by handwritten notes
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FEDERICO FELLINI: DAI DISEGNI AI FILM / FROM DRAWINGS TO FILMS by Pier Marco De Santi [1989]

FEDERICO FELLINI: DAI DISEGNI AI FILM / FROM DRAWINGS TO FILMS by Pier Marco De Santi [1989]

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Giardini Editori e Stampatori, Pisa, 1989 | Softcover, 96pp | 21 × 29.5 cm | First Edition

A multilingual exhibition catalogue exploring the visual imagination of Federico Fellini through the drawings, caricatures and graphic notes that shaped his cinematic universe. Curated by Pier Marco De Santi, the book traces Fellini’s habit of sketching characters long before they reached the screen: grotesques, dream figures, archetypes, half-remembered faces. The result is a rare look at Fellini not as director but as draftsman - a portrait of an artist who storyboarded instinctively, using drawing as a form of self-investigation and narrative rehearsal.

Illustrated throughout with sketches, production stills and early concept drawings, the catalogue accompanied the Accademia Italiana exhibition in autumn 1989. A fascinating document of process, showing how Fellini’s private visual language fed directly into the texture of films such as 8½, La Strada and Roma. Text in Italian, English, French and German.

Very good condition: Light rubbing and edge wear to covers; faint surface marks to the rear panel; internally clean, bright and tightly bound. no inscriptions.

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