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Lot Essay
Morrocco is renowned for his Italian beach scenes which over the years became more and more imbued with a vivid explosion of colour. He travelled to Italy with his family every year and enjoyed observing the Lido atmosphere.
'Beach scenes: I have always been interested in using the human figure and Italy is one of the places you can see it, especially in the summer. One of the reasons I go to Italy quite a lot is because of that very reason. You can see that almost nude human figure against the setting of the sea. This is almost a social comment about the lido atmosphere that you see in beaches in Italy'('Alberto Morrocco', Talking Pictures, Scottish Television, 1992).
MacMillan comments: 'These paintings are often touched with humour, and the composition is simplified to allow his delight in it all to shine through unencumbered' (Duncan MacMillan, The Independent, 14 March
1998).
'Beach scenes: I have always been interested in using the human figure and Italy is one of the places you can see it, especially in the summer. One of the reasons I go to Italy quite a lot is because of that very reason. You can see that almost nude human figure against the setting of the sea. This is almost a social comment about the lido atmosphere that you see in beaches in Italy'('Alberto Morrocco', Talking Pictures, Scottish Television, 1992).
MacMillan comments: 'These paintings are often touched with humour, and the composition is simplified to allow his delight in it all to shine through unencumbered' (Duncan MacMillan, The Independent, 14 March
1998).