ARTIST: Vincenzo Laricchia (Italian, born 1940)
NAME: Path through Positano
YEAR: 2001
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Restretched. Faint scratch along left edge. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 16 x 19 1/2 inches / 40 x 50 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed
SIGNATURE: lower left and on verso
NOTE: has artist's stamp on verso.
SKU#: 118810
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BIOGRAPHY:
Vincenzo Laricchia was born January, 1940, in Italy. From the age of ten, when other boys were playing soccer, Laricchia was going to museums. He knew instinctively the God had given him a special talent -- the ability to transfer to canvas the reflections of his inner self. Educated at the Academia of Bella Arte in Naples, he soon realized that he knew more than his teachers. Traveling to Rome to attent the Academia Tibernia, he was met with the same phenomena. Rapidly was was becoming the talk of Italian art circles. His works steeped deep in the tradition of the masters of the 18th century brought forth a clamoring of students of art wanting to learn his secrets. Thus was born Vincenzo Laricchia, Maestro.In 1970, at the age of thirty, he was honored by the Italian presidency as the recipient of the annual President's Award (gold medallion), given to the most worthy and deserving painter in Italy. Today his studio is overflowing with similar awards from all over Europe. He is especially proud of the Golden Brush Award bestowed upon him in Paris, France, in 1976.Vincenzo Laricchia is a household name in Italian galleries. He has shown all over Europe and most recently in Venezuela with laudable success. The present marks the realization of part of a lifelong dream -- to show and acheive success in America.