ALDO RAIMONDIORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PRINt Up for sale a Lovely watercolor print by famousartist, Aldo Raimondi. Offered in original frame with acrylic plexiglass(glass got broken and replaced by plexiglass). Signed in ink , front side(lower right). With inscription on pencil “Paris Place de la Concorde”. Dimensions: Painting: Width 13”, Height 9” inches Frame: Width 17.5”, Height 13.75” inches Condition: Painting is in good condition. Please check the pictures. Aldo Raimondi Born in Rome in 1902, Raimondi began his artisticcareer there in the studio of Giuseppe Signorini. He majored in architecture atthe Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 22. Between 1925 and 1926 he lived inMilan, where he served in the Italian military; while there, he painted afresco for a barracks, and restored some of the rooms of the Palazzo Cusani,home of the Command of the Army Corps. Raimondi moved to Parma in 1926, and began to teachin the local Art Institute: there he inserted himself into a difficult environmentwithout much effort, and was quickly befriended by the natives for hisextraordinary dedication to his craft and the eye-catching qualities of hischaracter. In Parma, he was commissioned by the mayor to paint some watercolorsof the view over the old city, still visible today in the Town Hall, which areproof of his skill as a landscape artist; Raimondi would receive other suchcommissions both in Italy and abroad later on. In Parma in 1930 he organizedhis first of many solo exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad. From 1938-40 hereplaced Achille Beltrame as the illustrator of "Domenica delCorriere," and later was called to illustrate "The People ofTurin." Specializing in watercolor painting, an exclusivepiece of his repertoire, in 1939 he was appointed a professor of watercolors atthe Academy of Brera, a chair he left immediately after the war to devotehimself full-time to making films. Later he painted landscapes, animals,flowers and many portraits, including those of the Popes Pius XII, John XXIII(1958) and Pope Paul VI (1966). He also produced some windows for the Seminaryof Monza, for the parish of Menaggio in Como, and the church of San Simplicianoin Milan.