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Walter Girotto

Walter Girotto (Born 1953) is active/lives in New York, California / Italy.  Walter Girotto is known for Figure and landscape painting.

Born in a small northern Italian town called Rovigo on May 4, 1953, he later moved with his family to Turin, Italy.  The only things he likes to remember about Rovigo  are the branches of the weeping willow in the small garden, two tin soldiers and a picture of a whale, drawn at nursery school when he was 4, under the gaze of a nun who was unaware that her admiring glance was to decide his life as a painter.

Walter Girotto uses oil and oil pastel crayon on wood panels to achieve a unique, textured effect. Figurative works and landscapes are his specialty.

In 1985, Girotto took part in his first Art-Expo in New York, and, following this auspicious debut in which he sold everything within the first twenty minutes of the opening of the exhibition, he spent the rest of the show apologizing for having no other works available.

Girotto took part with equal fortune in the next two New York Art-Expos until, in 1987, the meeting with dealer Robert Bane led to th   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1447 characters.]  Artist bio

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