Midnight Sun V

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 200.7 x 250.2 cm (79 x 98 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CMC

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of David and Gerry Pincus

Accession Number

2002.147.1

About the Artist

Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente was born on March 23, 1952, in Naples, Italy, into an aristocratic family as the only son of Judge Marchese Lorenzo Clemente di San Luca and his wife, Bianca Quarto. Drawn to art from childhood through dreamlike drawings inspired by recollections, he moved to Rome in 1970 to study architecture at Sapienza University but soon abandoned it for visual arts. There, he met the concep...

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