IS THIS PAINTING SIGNED ENNIO FINCI OR IS IT SOMEONE ELSE?

I GOT THIS PAINTING AT AN ESTATE. ITS SIGNED E CONJOINED FINCI. I LOOKED IT UP BUT ALL IT CAME UP WAS ENNIO FINCI. THE PROBLEM IS THAT HIS WORKS LOOKS NOTHING LIKE MY PAINTING.
ANYBODY KNOWS??

 

I wouldn't be surprised if yours was a decorative painting. Looks like a carved Mexican frame.

Debora

 

The canvas doesn't look like a commercially prepared canvas. The frame looks like 60s or 70s.

 

It's much more skillfully done than the last artist's painting!
A breath of relief! It looks like the work of a Sunday painter, a hobbyist painter.

I agree with Debora's timeframe, the Mexican frame, the whole painting could have come from Mexico. I doubt there will be any way to tell. The canvas fabric weave is not what was ordinarily sold in the United States in the 1970s.

 

It is, however, pre-gessoed canvas that was sold in art stores, but perhaps I never saw it with such a thick weave. I didn't buy the pre-gessoed kind, but just bought regular duck cloth fabric.

 

antidiem, I think you could be right, this might be a tourist painting, although, my guess would be Italy based on the subject and the painters last name. It could have been framed here in the states. I think most frame shops carried carved framing material similar to this, it was in style back then.

I bought the cheapest stuff the school store had in stock, raw, or the smaller Masonite panels. "starving artist student".

 

staples......I hate paintings with staples....

 

The name doesn't look like Finci, it has a z instead of a c.

The way it is painted, thinly, with that slightly washed look, is often seen on Italian paintings from the second half of the 20th century as well.

 

To ME, it's either E Finzi OR F Einzi......BUT the E is painted ON TOP OF THE F........ don't suppose that helps much tho.........

 

It's much easier to stretch a canvas using staples, they aren't supposed to be seen! Hate is a strong emotion to have over an inanimate object

 

I don't know anyone in the art curriculum who wasn't a starving art student!

 

I guess you've never had a staple in your hand. That is the moment you hate a staple. Or your own stupidity.

 

Nope, never. But I stepped on a thumbtack once! OUCH!!

 

I just don't want anyone to think that the fasteners of the canvas are important, they are not. The content and execution of the artist's work is the important part.

Whether held in place by nails, thumbtacks or staples = makes no difference as to the value of the art work.

 

I managed to catch my balance against a shed wall with a rusty nail once. Let's just say I had an idea what it must have been like to be crucified.
Years later the scar was still visible. By the time it faded, I skewered my finger on to a kitchen knife.
I am good with metal objects.

 

not the value per se.....but the age.....fer sure !
and many times...the quality...

 

Yes the age, but not the quality of the artwork.

 

LOL! The thumbtack was maybe about age 12.
Later came the knowledge by experience of stepping on roofing nails, tears from sharp roofing sheet metal, and at some point I went to get a tetanus shot. When I arrived at the urgent care place, I was informed that the tetanus shot had been ganged with a pertussus injection. I didn't realize it could harm me! A couple of months later, I developed full blown whooping cough and was very sick with it for quite a while! Never got another tetanus shot!

Eventually, I learned to be much more careful out there in the world.

 

There is a current artist named Eric Finzi. His works also look nothing like this painting. Here is his website. Apparently he paints with epoxy these days...
http://www.ericfinzi.com/

[Edit: Should have written "epoxy paint."]

 

Epoxy? Isn't that a type of glue?