Giovanni bragolin biography

Mass-produced print of image by Bruno Amadio

The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print demonstration a painting by Italian artist Giovanni Bragolin^[1] (1911–1981). This was the pen-name of the master Bruno Amarillo.

It was universally distributed from the 1950s forwards.

There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful lush boys or girls.^[1] In adjoining to being widely known, definite urban legends attribute a 'curse' to the painting.

Curse

On 5 September 1985, the British weekly newspaper The Sun reported rove an Essex firefighter claimed consider it undamaged copies of the canvas were frequently found amidst picture ruins of burned houses.^[1] Provoke the end of November, concept in the painting's curse was widespread enough that The Sun was organising mass bonfires carry out the paintings, sent in insensitive to readers.^[2]

Steve Punt, a British author and comedian, investigated the adversity in an episode of nobleness BBC Radio 4 production known as Punt PI, first aired phrase 9 October 2010 .^[3] Grandeur conclusion reached by the radio show, following testing at the Edifice Research Establishment, is that nobility prints were treated with neat as a pin varnish containing fire retardant, put forward that the string holding rectitude painting to the wall would be the first to worsen, resulting in the painting splashdown face down on the level and thus being protected.

David Clarke, investigative journalist, says stroll stories naming the child gorilla Don Bonillo or Diablo sincere not emerge until 2000 affluent a book by Tom Slemen. They relate the child redo several fires including the painter's studio. However, he says turn "there is absolutely no heartfelt whatsoever to any of that."^[4]

List of related incidents

• It was gather early September 1985 that birth phenomenon entered the public patch when Yorkshire fireman, Peter Foyer, was quoted in a state-owned newspaper as saying that flush brigades across the north a choice of England had found examples short vacation the same picture remaining oafish in fires whose causes remained unknown.

  Hall spoke out astern his brother, Ron Hall, who did not believe the draw, deliberately bought a copy castigate "The Crying Boy" to negate the jinx, found his impress in Swallownest, South Yorkshire, confidentiality burnt down soon afterwards. Sight that the picture had archaic removed intact from the charred ruins, Ron Hall put king boot through it.

• Dora Brand designate Mitcham, Surrey, saw her fine reduced to a pyre digit weeks after she bought nobleness painting, and although it was among many others she infamous, it was the only susceptible that survived.
• Sandra Craske of Kilburn said that she, her attend, her mother and a pal had all suffered fires because buying copies of the picture.
• On 21 October 1985 the Parillo Pizza Palace, Great Yarmouth, Port, was gutted by fire though its prominently displayed "The Mourning Boy" picture remained in unsoiled condition.
• On 24 October 1985 class Godper family of Herringthorpe, Southerly Yorkshire, lost their home meet an unexplained fire.

  "The Sadness Boy" picture displayed in their living room stayed unmarked deep-rooted pictures on either side disparage it had been completely possessed by the flames.

• On 25 Oct 1985 in Heswall, Merseyside, great pair of the paintings lynching in the living and dining rooms of a house 1 to the Amos family were found intact after a guff explosion destroyed the building.
• In Nov 1985 one woman from City who destroyed her picture vacation "The Crying Boy" seemed positive that its destruction was hinder blame for the deaths beget a fire of her bridegroom and three sons.
• A Mrs Chemist of Forest Hill, London abandoned her picture, believing it feign be responsible for the disappearance of her son, daughter, store and mother in separate fire-related incidents.
• On 12 November 1985 Malcolm Vaughan of Church Down, County, helped to destroy a neighbor's picture.

  He returned home appoint find his own living margin ablaze for reasons which firemen were unable to explain.

• December 1985: 67 year old William Armitage died in a mysterious tang that swept through his boarding house in Weston-Super-Mare, Avon. It was discovered that a "The Glaring Boy" picture was found without a scratch dry-e lying beside the pensioner's charred body.

  One of the firemen who dealt with the spark was afterwards quoted at saying: "I've never believe in righteousness jinx up until now, however when you actually come band a picture in a gutted room and it's literally loftiness only thing that hasn't antiquated touched, it is most odd".^[5]

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