Vespignani L. 1945. Drawing. Reproduced from Tendenzen, Sept-Oct. 1965. (Source: Shikes, R. E., 1969, The Indignant Eye: The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso, Beacon Press, Boston).

The German on the Skulls

"...deliberate carelessness of the powerful line...condensed treatment...primitive symbolism..." These are terms Shikes uses to describe the style of Lorenzo Vespignani (p 389).