He was born in Naples, Italy and moved to the US in 1968. They literally were coming to fisticuffs, and really going at it. That’s great, but it's not really the reason one should get into it. 22 talking about this. We traced it back, approximately 50 years, it was in the collection of a sculptor in Germany, and before that, it was obviously in the Maltzan collection.
Federico Castelluccio is a driven and talented individual maintaining two careers as a professional artist and established actor. Federico Castelluccio, is an internationally renowned realist painter, art collector and connoisseur of old master, baroque painting. From an early age it was evident that Federico had talent and an innate ability for drawing and painting and was determined to pursue a life in art.
I was so excited that I immediately hid it again behind the first piece, like someone might hide a little treasure at a yard sale to make sure no one else finds it.
And when the opportunity came to get into it, I never really called myself an actor until I got my first job, and my first pay cheque. “It was a labour of love that took almost three years,” he revealed.It eventually sold to a Canadian fan of The Sopranos for £109,500.
This time, instead of a small picture in the catalogue like before, there was a huge half page picture. And so, I went to the MET, and I examined that painting very carefully, which is a smaller painting than the one in the auction, and it seemed like it was done at around the same period and in the same style as when Luca Giordano was in Spain. In addition, many well known actors and celebrities own Federico’s original work, including, Whoopi Goldberg, Caroline Rhea and Joe Pantoliano, to name a few.The Kresge Art Museum showed Castelluccio’s paintings in an exhibit titled “Masters of Illusion”.
Moving our entire family, 4 children, my mother, and then my father was not coming, he still had a job and had to raise the money until he was able to come over. Castelluccio discovered a 17th century painting by Italian Baroque painter Guercino at a Frankfurt gallery and subsequently purchased it at auction after it had been incorrectly identified as an 18th-century painting. When I caught up with her, she said there’s a Sebastian in the stack of paintings on the landing, and she knows I love Sebastian as a subject matter.So one last question, then I’m going to love ya, and leave ya.In real life, Federico Castelluccio is an extraordinary talented painter, in addition to being a famous actor, director and writer. So they called the manager down, he was very cordial, and he let us in.I’m like, I thought I was hearing things, and I said, what?And now I’m getting to your question.This was in October, looking at the positive side, it gave me time to research further. His works are held in the collections of Palazzo Chigi, in Ariccia, Italy, Yale University Museum of Art, in New Haven, Connecticut, Kresge Art Museum, in East Lansing, Michigan and Tisch Fine Art Collection, NY. Thank you!SELF PORTRAIT OF DEGAS WITH TANGERINE & FINE WINEChetkin Gallery, established in 1987 by Don and Carol Lynn Chetkin, is an International Fine Art Gallery with a special emphasis on Contemporary European painters. It is so stunning it feels as if it is illuminated even when there is no light shining on it.
This sparked such an anger in me, that I dealt with it in a very tough way. That is really the key to acting, it’s not acting but "being", and so that was my beginning.There are several galleries who would like to show my work, and there are some unorthodox galleries. The total cost of the painting including restoration and shipping plus extra costs came to $140,000. Yvonne went ahead of me. In 1982 he received a full presidential scholarship to the School of Visual Arts, in New York City, earning a BFA in painting and media arts.
Various documentaries have been made on his work, including âNight of Heartsâ, which focuses on the process, making of and journey of a large figurative painting entitled âVitaâ. Courtesy of Federico Castelluccio. That’s when I said, okay, now I can call myself an actor. It was an exhilarating moment; a once-in-alifetime feeling that I will always remember for an incredible surge of adrenalin. Federico Castelluccio will today unveil to the public a long-lost masterpiece by the Italian Baroque painter Guercino at an exhibition in Turin’s historic Miradolo Castle.