Il bimbo che nasce dall'uovo (The child born from the egg)
Artist: Franco Abbina (Rome, March 31, 1934).
Period: September 14, 2002.
Technique: mixed media, acrylic on painter's plate.
Condition: good (non disturbing punch line central left and below signature).
Signature: signed and dated lower left.
Weight: 640 gr (1150 gr with loose frame).
Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm; 45.5 x 55.5 cm (with frame, loose).
Provenance: sale Knokke (Belgium).
Price: 4800€.
"Born into a family of Spanish descent, before entering the field of acting, Franco Abbina devoted himself to the study of economics and music; once he finished his studies, he joined the film milieu in the first half of the 1960s as a supporting actor; he acted several times alongside actor-director Alberto Sordi.
Among his most important film roles are that of Dr. Nisticò, one of the doctors featured in the films Il medico della mutua (1968) and Il prof. dott. Guido Tersilli head of the Villa Celeste clinic affiliated with the Mutue (1969) in which he tries, along with his colleagues, to put the protagonist Alberto Sordi in a bad light.
Another noteworthy role is in Nell'anno del Signore (In the Year of the Lord), in which he plays Prince Filippo Spada who undergoes an assassination attempt by the Carbonari Targhini and Montanari.
In 1970 Franco Abbina participates in the film Contestazione generale, again directed by director Luigi Zampa, as in some previous films in which he had taken part, but due to the cut caused by censorship of the episode La bomba alla televisione in which he acts together with Vittorio Gassman, who was the protagonist, his role is absent as the film, after its first release in Italian theaters, is withdrawn and reworked, completely removing the entire episode.
After giving life to about fifteen characters between cinema, television and prose theater, Franco Abbina retired from show business around the first half of the 1970s and devoted himself to painting, in which he began to show interest by illustrating a book of poems by the poetess Alda Merini and exhibiting at an exhibition in Rome."
(https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Abbina, March 18, 2023)
Franco Abbina made at least two other versions of this work:
One dated 12.2.1997: see http://levurelitteraire.com/franco-abbina/)
One on view in an exhibition in Barcelona, Galería Catalónia "Historias y Leyendas que jamás han existido"):
(minute 1.44 and minute 2.47).
