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Renato Fratini was born on 19 October, 0032 in Mexico, is a Book cover and cinema poster artist. Discover Renato Fratini's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 41 years old?
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Renato Fratini Net Worth
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Renato Fratini (October 1932, in Rome – 1973 in Mexico) was an Italian commercial artist who specialised in cinema posters and book covers.
He began his career in the early 1950s by joining the studio owned by the Guerri brothers.
There he mostly worked on illustrations and comic strips.
Following the collapse of the Favalli studio in the late 1950s he moved to Milan and joined the D'ami studio.
Through agents he got commissions to paint covers for Sexton Blake, Famous Romance Library and Thriller, all from Fleetway Publications.
In 1952 he joined the Augusto Favalli's studio, which was at that time Italy's biggest producer of film posters.
He worked with artists such as Nicola Simbari, Enrico DeSeta and Giorgio De Gaspari.
During his six-year stay in the studio, Fratini made many memorable illustrations for films such as Senso, Invaders from Mars, Sweet Smell of Success, and Beautiful but Dangerous, the last being notable for his portrait of Gina Lollobrigida.
Fratini also experimented with abstract elements.
He moved to London in late 1958, despite not speaking English, and there he enjoyed a very productive career throughout the 1960s.
It was Eric Pulford, who ran the Downton agency, that brought Fratini to London.
Downton held the Rank account and accounts with most of the other large studios.
Rank was connected to the Cinecitta studios in Rome and Fratini was working at the Cinecitti publicity studio, Studio Favalli.
In 1959 Fratini met the fashion designer Georgina Somerset-Butler at a party and they married in 1961, after which she went by the name Gina Fratini.
Fratini was known for his exuberant love of life.
Gina said "He loved food, loved drink, loved cigars, loved dancing ... he just liked to generally live it up. He adored jazz, and we were always out at Ronnie Scott's."
Fratini had a great confidence in his own abilities, which was justified by his skill.
Ken Paul described him as "the only man I ever saw who could actually draw with a paintbrush".
His heyday was in 1960s London.
Renato Fratini studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma.
Other work included Whistle Down The Wind (1961), Phantom of the Opera (1962), This Sporting Life (1963), The Chalk Garden (1964), Hot Enough for June (1964), Maroc 7 (1966), Khartoum (1966).
Often Eric Pulford produced the design and Fratini did the painting.
In cinema posters, Fratini produced the artwork for From Russia With Love (1963) from a design by Eddie Paul.
His first U.K. magazine commission was a double page spread for Woman's Mirror, 1963.
He also worked for Homes and Garden, Woman's Journal and Woman.
In 1965 he was asked to illustrate a Modesty Blaise serial for King magazine over four issues.
Fratini also illustrated most of the posters for the Carry On films of the period from designs by Pulford, starting with Don't Lose Your Head (1966) up to Carry on at Your Convenience (1971).
By then he was making £1000 per poster.
As a poster painter, the high point was in 1970 when Fratini was paid £2000 for his work on Waterloo from a design by Eric Pulford.
Vic Fair commented on the apparently detailed design "All that detail ... Fratini could just knock it in. Look closely, and there's actually nothing there! Genius, really."
In London he completed work for publishers Corgi, Coronet, Hodder and Pan amongst others.
He often used the palette knife and the unpolished nature of his work was both atmospheric and popular with art directors who could use it without needing to spend more on finishing.
The well-received covers combined paint and pencil to create distinctive tableaux of juxtaposed images with a rough unfinished tone.
His work was still being used years after his death until styles gradually changed.
Fratini was an active magazine illustrator.
He left for Mexico in around 1970 but continued to do some work for the U.K. He also did work for the American market at this time including advertising for Pepsi Cola.
He was at a beach party in Mexico in 1973 when he died suddenly, reportedly of a heart attack.