[1] The paintings feature a variety of tearful children looking morosely straight ahead.
They are sometimes called "Gypsy boys" although there is nothing specifically linking them to the Romani people.
[citation needed] In the 1970s he was found to be alive and well-to-do and still painting in Padua.
[citation needed] Claims that he fled to Spain after the war, painting children from a local orphanage which subsequently burned down, appear to be an unconfirmed urban legend.
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