Drawing made by Novella Parigini. Coloured crayons on black cardboard. Signed. 50 x 70 cm. She established herself in the world of Parisian existentialism; the typical features of her art are cat’s eyes in male and female figures, prominent cheekbones, turgid and full lips, large breasts, prototype of today’s woman, and the repetition of the subjects anticipating those standardisation processes which reproposed artists like Andy Warhol only a few years later. Educated to the cult of beauty and hedonism inherited from her aristocratic Sienese family, her experience mixed with French existentialism, feminism and surrealism, and then resulted in a pioneering and intellectual Pop Art form. Snob and aristocratic, integrated in the Parisian intellectual circles, in the early post-war period she showed herself strolling uninhibitedly the Parisian streets with “heretical” clothes, becoming the protagonist of society life.