Raffaele Frumenti (1922-2002) - Arlecchino e mare

As shown in the photos, I am selling a beautiful painting by Raffaele Frumenti featuring Harlequin and the Sea. Excellent overall condition, it presents no defects of any kind.

Signature on the front and back
Dedication

- Raffaele Frumenti -

Raffaele Frumenti (1922 – 2002) was born in Rome in Borgo Pio, the old papal quarter. A painter by vocation, he showed the ability to express himself artistically from a young age, when for pure amusement he built small little theatres, taking care of the scenery and painting the backdrops. His painting is a colorful, melancholic, ironic and captivating world that explodes in the representation of the human comedy. The paintings depict figures resembling cardinals who at the same time evoke circus clowns, in a world of ghosts that spring from his subconscious, perhaps a relic of a childhood spent peering inside the Basilica of Saint Peter.

Raffaele Frumenti’s painting is, formally, essentially a painting of color: a very precious color experienced as a kind of visual music that is orchestrated in variations of timbre and shade, in a triumph of sparkling brushstrokes. A painting of pleasant sensations. He also had the honor of executing a triptych in mural painting in the atrium of the Sant’ Basilio middle school in Rome, on commission from the Fine Arts. He created the cover for the book Polizia in azione. He was a teacher of Artistic Drawing at the State Middle School “Benvenuto Cellini.”