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The Crying Boy Paintings

In my tutorial with the tutor, he said that  my paintings reminds him of the crying boy paintings.The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin. It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards.

On 5 September 1985, the British tabloid newspaper The Sun reported that an Essex firefighter claimed that undamaged copies of the painting were frequently found amidst the ruins of burned houses.

There was a fire in a house destroyed everything except the Crying Boy painting  in 1985, and then in 1988, there was another fire in the house of the new owner, again the only object survived it the fire was the painting. There were also fires in those house where the paintings have been kept for a while.

It emerged that the paintings were not painted by the same painter, or the copies of the same painting.