Midnight Sun V
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View on museum website →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...