Genre: Contemporary Subject: Abstract Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: Italy Dimensions: 19 3/4" x 15 1/2" x 3/4" Dimensions w/Frame: 26" x 22" Giordano Falzoni (Italian, 1925-1998). "Butterflies". Oil on canvas. Inscribed on reverse "Butterflies Under the Sea 1962". Signed lower left "Giordano Falzoni 1962". Provenance: David Porter Estate. Born in 1925, Giordano Falzoni is a painter, writer and sculptor and actor. In the movie world he has participated in numerous films including Jean-Jacques Anaud's "The Rose's Name" (1986) and Federico Fellini's "The Voice of the Moon" (1990). He is one of the founding members of Esperanto Radikala Asocio (Esperanto Radical Association). He was also a member of the 63rd Group, a neo-avant-garde movement formed in 1963 in Palermo He was the translator of the surrealist writer André Breton for Einaudi. He died on April 26, 1998 in Milan. Surrealist and Cobra tendencies in his art.