The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian artist Giovanni Bragolin (1911–1981) pen-name of the painter popularly known as Bragolin. His paintings feature a variety of tearful children looking morosely straight ahead, sometimes called “Gypsy boys”, although nothing specifically links them to the Romani people. In 1986, British tabloid newspaper The Sun reported that an Essex firefighter claimed that undamaged … Continue reading Bragolin ~ To Hide To Shine To Cross