This painting & frame is in excellent condition. I am not sure how it has been reproduced, there are none of the dots that you get with a print. 59 x 79cm Cursed Painter Bruno Amadio (The Crying Boy) Giovanni Bragolin (1911–1981)

Bruno Amadio (1911-1981), popularly known as Giovanni Bragolin, and also known as Franchot Seville, Angelo (Giovanni) Bragolin, and J. Bragolin (if you read the signature on his paintings wrong), was the creator of the group of paintings known as Crying Boys.

He was an academically trained painter, working in post-war Venice as painter and restaurator, producing the Crying Boy pictures for tourists. At least 65 such paintings were made under the name Bragolin, reproductions of which were sold worldwide. In the 1970s he was found to be alive and well-to-do and still painting in Padua.

The Legend It is said that he was frustrated by his fame as an artist, Amadio made ??a pact with the devil so that his paintings were to succeed in society. From then he made ??paintings in which children are crying. One was a portrait of a child living in an orphanage that once the box, caught fire and killed the child. His soul, then, is said to dwell in the box. The Curse of the Crying Boy’ appeared out of the blue one morning in 1985. when several mysteries occurred all around England. When the debris was sifted through the only item that remained un-charred was a painting of a little boy with a tear rolling down his cheek in every fire. Could this all be an coincidence? Bit of a mystery!!!

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