The crying little boy , a drawing in black and white. by Jose Lok

About "The crying little boy , a drawing in black and white."

by Jose Lok

About the artwork

Urban legend of the crying boy
The paintings are well known, you see them hanging here and there, and there are collectors who enjoy nothing more than sniffing out new variants of the weeping shabby boy and the pitiful girl with the long hair, big eyes and big tears. Around the paintings, the replicas and the prints that have been made of them, a myth has developed, an urban legend or urban legend. Behind the big sad eyes there is supposedly a big secret, just as there is a secret behind the maker of the original. Little is known about him and that gives substance to legend.

Tear just over the eyelid
There are several variants of the crying child in circulation. A quick search on the internet will reveal twenty different ones, small children, slightly older children, boys, girls, dark, blond. One element is standard in this type of painting and that is the tears that fall just over the eyelids or roll down the cheeks. Reproductions can still be found here and there at flea markets and thrift stores, but where the original works are is unknown. Most of the portraits bear a signature of G. Bragolin in the upper right corner.

Bragolin
It is a mysterious master, this Bragolin. Searches for the painter lead among other places to Venice. There sat one Bruno Amadio (1911-1981) who worked under the pseudonym Giovanni Bragolin. He painted local working-class boys because there was a demand for it. source wikipedia.