Raffaele Frumenti (1922-2002) - Arlecchino e mare

As shown in the photos, I am selling a beautiful painting by Raffaele Frumenti, figurative (Harlequin and sea).
Excellent overall condition; it has no defects of any kind.

Signature on the front and on the back
Dedication

- Raffaele Frumenti -

Raffaele Frumenti (1922 – 2002) born in Rome at Borgo Pio, the old papal quarter. A painter by vocation, he manifested the ability to express himself artistically since he was a child, when for pure amusement he built small theater stages, 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 characters resembling cardinals who at the same time remind one of circus clowns, in a world of ghosts that emerge from his subconscious, perhaps a legacy of a childhood spent peering inside St. Peter’s Basilica.

Raffaele Frumenti’s painting is, formally, essentially color painting: a precious color experienced as a kind of visual music that is orchestrated through varying timbres and tones, in a triumph of sparkling brushstrokes. A painting of pleasant sensations. He also had the honor of executing a three-panel mural painting in the atrium of the S. Basilio middle school in Rome, commissioned by the Arts (Belle Arti). He illustrated the cover of the book Polizia in azione. He was a teacher of Artistic Drawing at the State Middle School “Benvenuto Cellini.”