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Renato Fratini: cover to "Katherine" by Anya Seton

Artist: Renato Fratini (Painter)

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Title:	Renato Fratini: cover to "Katherine" by Anya Seton
Artist:	Renato Fratini (Painter)
Media Type:	Paint - Oil
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Cover to Hodder & Stoughton Ltd's 1967 reprinted paperback edition of Anya Seton's Katherine.

Renato Fratini (Rome, Oct 1932 - Mexico, 1973) was an Italian commercial artist who specialised in cinema posters and book covers. Renato Fratini studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. He began his career in the early 1950s by joining the studio owned by the Guerri brothers. There he mostly worked on illustrations and comic strips. In 1952 he joined the Favalli brothers' studio, which was at that time Italy’s biggest producer of film posters. He worked with artists such as Nicola Simbari, Enrico DeSeta and Giorgio De Gaspari. During his six-year stay in the studio, Fratini made many memorable illustrations for films such as Senso, Invaders from Mars, The Sweet Smell of Success, and La Donna Piu Bella Del Mondo, the last being notable for his portrait of Gina Lollobrigida. Fratini also experimented with abstract elements. Following the collapse of the Favalli studio in the late 1950s he moved to Milan and joined the D'ami studio. Through agents he got commissions to paint covers for Sexton Blake, Famous Romance Library and Thriller, all from Fleetway Publications.

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