In an early-1930s publication titled "Incredibile storia vissuta di... matite", Fortunato Depero (1892-1960) tells a personal anecdote related to some advertisement illustrations he had been asked to create by a Milan-based company in 1926.

He had been commissioned four subjects: "Pencil Factory", "The Pencil-animal", "The Pencil-man" and "Bundle of colored pencils". But finally the artist did not consider the fee satisfactory and took his drawings back, deciding to look for better clients.

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Fonte: Italian Ways