When he was a four years old little boy he left the east of France and the greyness
of Longwy to go to Rimini, the pearl of the Adriatic.
The constant murmur of the sea, its odour and the surrounding luminosity came
as a sensual emotional shock, sudden and unforgettable.
The Tiberio bridge in Rimini, 2000.
Drawing.
“La Trata”. A fisherman’s net from Romagna. 1996.
Exhibited in Palais de Chaillot: Musée de la Marine (Paris).
Oil painting, 81 cm x 116 cm.
Galley, 1966. Oil painting. Collection Nancy Scrymgeour.
Rimini
– the lovely town of his childhood and adolescence.
Federico Fellini described it as fascinating in “Amarcord” (“I remember it” in the dialect of Romagna).
Happy ball games on the beach helped make up for the absence of his parents. There was his
grandmother, Caterina, and her sister Olga and his aunts and uncles; all this affectionate and numerous
family helped to balance his penchant for solitude.
The whole family lived in a fisherman’s house in the Via Perticari in Viserba di Rimini. It
echoed with laughing voices and was always full of human warmth even if money was tight.
Grapes of Romagna, 1977. Oil painting, 31 cm x 40 cm.
April 1995.
Exhibition organised by the Lions club of Rimini-Malatesta,
at the Grand Hotel in Rimini. This place which had mythic importance for
him during his adolescence and was the
last residence of Federico Fellini.
