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TWO ORIGINAL INK DRAWINGS ON CARD SIGNED LINO PALACIO - on the back of a box of "De Reszke" Argentine cigarillos - preparatory drawings for the collection of political cartoons Historia de la Guerra Hitler saluting and Churchill with a cigar in his mouth. On the reverse, an attempt to find a signature for his pseudonym Flax.

Lino Palacio contributed to a number of Argentine publications, including the children's periodical Billiken the newspaper La Prensa (for which he edited the children's supplement), populating their pages with characters that have become famous: Ramona, Avivato, Don Fulgencio... The mural he painted for the World's Fair in New York in 1938 earned him the admiration of Walt Disney.

In 1941, Palacio adopted the pseudonym Flax, and wrote a column for the newspaper La Razón the events of the war in the form of caricatures. This work led to the publication of Historia de la Guerra, in 4 volumes, each containing 200 drawings.

A retrospective exhibition was held in 2006 at the Museo de Artes Plásticas in Buenos Aires.