Mikhail Bulgakov is called one of the most mystical writers of Russian literature of the last century. But the Italian painter of Spanish origin Bruno Amadio is a dramatic and sinister artist of the 20th century. His name is surrounded by rumors and legends, and his most famous painting, “The Crying Boy,” still causes a lot of speculation and controversy among specialists and ordinary people. Amadio's creative pseudonym is Giovanni Bragolin. He lived quite a long human life and creative life, leaving a number of interesting canvases depicting children. The painting “Crying Boy” belongs to the same series. More than 20 portraits, from which the eyes of little children, full of tears, anger, despair, melancholy and pain, look at the viewer, amaze with their vulnerability, touchingness and a completely non-childish doom. What did the artist want to say with them? He himself was more than once called the painter of the devil - for the eccentricity of his works.
"Children's" cycle. There are no interviews with him in the press, and there are practically no works of art history about his work. We know that he was a participant in World War II, then worked in Venice and was a restoration artist. The painting “The Crying Boy,” like the rest of the “Gypsy Cycle,” was painted by the author for tourists. The very idea of the painting series came to the author’s mind under the impressions of those scenes of childhood suffering that he saw. The name of the cycle was given by critics, most likely, because the little sitters have a completely unkempt appearance: their faces are dirty, their hair is disheveled, their clothes are poor, torn, and unkempt. Although nothing gypsy - no external national signs - is noticeable in the children. Oddly enough, Amadi’s works were very popular. For example, the painting “The Crying Boy” in reproductions was sold out en masse in the 70s and 80s, especially among the middle and poor segments of the population. Dates of life of Giovanni Bragolin – 1911-1981. RIDDLE ONE
As already mentioned, the attitude towards the canvas discussed in the article is quite ambiguous. In addition to the plot, what is unusual about the painting “The Crying Boy”? The history of its creation deserves it special attention and research. The first mystery lies here, for there are several versions of how the portrait was painted. According to one, Bruno Amadio had a little son. And the painting “The Crying Boy,” history claims, conveys precisely his appearance. The child was quite nervous and timid. And he was especially afraid of fire - flames in the stove, a lit candle, and even matches. Bragolin worked in the realistic genre and tried to follow the truth of life as accurately as possible. Psychological detail was also extremely important for him. Therefore, as legends say, when the painting “The Crying Boy” by Giovanni Bragolin was painted, the artist specially lit matches in front of his son and brought them close to his face in order to naturally convey the horror in the children’s eyes, indignation and anger, and to evoke natural, truthful tears. No matter how unnatural the rumors sound, they are easy to believe. Remember the father of the great Amadeus Mozart! He also forced his son to play music 14-16 hours a day. You never know the stories about despot parents! So it may well be that the picture Spanish artist“The Crying Boy” is truly a portrait of his unfortunate son, a victim of a cruel father. A MYSTERY TO CONTINUE
However, the legend continues. Rumors claim that in the end, the child, driven to despair, wished his father to burn along with the matches with which he was frightening him. Soon the child died from severe pneumonia. And a little later, a terrible fire broke out in the artist’s workshop. All the works located there burned down. And only the ill-fated portrait remained untouched. It was even rumored that the charred corpse of Amadio himself was found in the room. However, this is a clear exaggeration: it is known that in fact the artist died of esophageal cancer. But the painting “The Crying Boy,” the photo of which you see, really wasn’t particularly damaged. It was then that a rumor first arose that the canvas was possessed by the angry soul of a child, and he began to take revenge on the offenders. RIDDLE SECOND
The second version of how Amadio painted his “Boy” is this: in 1973, on one of the Venetian streets, he saw a little ragamuffin, an inhabitant orphanage(or a street child). Appearance the latter was so colorful that Bruno convinced him to pose for the picture. Very soon after finishing work, the boy died under the wheels of a car (according to other sources, the orphanage and its unfortunate inhabitants burned down). What happened next - you, of course, already guessed. The same fire in the painter's studio, the fire consumes everything except fatal portrait. This is how the legend about the painting “The Crying Boy” gained momentum. Reproductions from it and other works by Giovanni Bragolin under common name“Crying Children” happily hosted various art galleries peace. MYSTIC OR REALITY
In the mid-80s of the last century, panic gripped England. A series of fires of various types swept across the country. In some apartments there was a gas explosion, in others there were short circuits in the electrical network, in others there were some other violations of safety regulations and the operation of household appliances. But the public would not have paid attention to these tragedies (after all, there were human casualties every time), if not for one “but”. Reproductions of Amadio’s works hung in all the burned rooms. Especially common was the one already known to you damn picture"Crying Boy" The townsfolk firmly decided: the baby, offended and angry at the whole world, is taking revenge on this soulless, cruel society. After all, at every ashes, amid the general collapse and devastation, only this picture remained safe and sound. Moreover, when, for the purpose of an experiment, journalists from one of the London newspapers (the publication drew the attention of readers to the strangeness of the incidents in order to increase circulation) wanted to burn several copies of reproductions - the paper did not burn, and no one could explain this phenomenon. The only remark that the quality of the paper is high and therefore does not burn did not stand up to criticism. What’s also interesting: the victims were mostly poor families - for some reason, “The Crying Boy” and other works in the series were particularly popular among precisely this group. From the Internet Post by group member Nina Kuzmenko
For example, a painting called “The Crying Boy”, which was created by the artist Giovanni Bragolina. He took his little son and made him cry for many hours in a row, holding burning matches to his face. The little child was deathly afraid of fire, the father knew this and deliberately brought his son to hysterics in order to create his own terrible picture.
One day, in fear of another “trial by fire,” the boy shouted to his father: “Burn yourself!”
Soon after painting the picture, the baby died, and after him, his sadistic father was burned alive.
Subsequently, the houses in which the painting was located began to burn down one after another, people died. Only the miraculously surviving canvas with a crying boy on it remained unharmed. So, similar cases It became more and more, people began to connect the fires and “The Crying Boy” together, the story became public, and it became clear how this picture was created.
In the end, one of the newspapers published an article that said that everyone who has a reproduction of “The Crying Boy” in their home should urgently get rid of it and that in the future this painting was forbidden to be sold. The original of the painting was never found, but the trail of her notoriety continues behind “The Boy” to this day.
Almost everyone famous painting has its own history and its own secret. However, many art historians consider Satan himself to be the author of a number of paintings. And this is by no means an unfounded statement - there is a lot of scarlet color on some fatal masterpieces, and this is far from paint...
“The Crying Boy” is one of the most famous “cursed” reproductions of paintings. The author of the original is the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin. The story of the picture was sad from the very beginning. There are two legends about how the canvas was painted.
Legend one - the curse of the son
Giovanni, creating a portrait of a crying child, forced his young son to be the sitter. But the baby did not understand his father’s instructions and could not cry on command. Therefore, the artist, knowing his son’s panicky fear of fire, lit matches in front of the boy’s face, causing the tears he needed. One can only imagine how the boy felt, but the artist was ready to do anything for the sake of great art, and continued his bullying. One day, a hysterical boy wished his father to burn himself. The effect of the curse was not long in coming. After 2 weeks, pneumonia took the child himself, and after some time his father died, being burned alive in his house.
Legend two - portrait of an orphan
Giovanni Bragolin painted his canvases in Spain. The sitters were child victims of war whom he found in orphanages. However, after the artist left the shelter, the building was consumed by fire.
Did the reproduction take revenge on its owners?
It was the reproduction of this painting that gained ominous fame. It happened in England in 1985. It all started with a series of terrible incidents. One after another, residential buildings in the northern part of the country began to catch fire. In many cases, buildings also buried their owners. The only coincidence was that in all these houses, among the charred things, cheap reproductions miraculously did not suffer. It depicted, as you already understood, a crying boy. The number of similar cases increased until a Yorkshire fireman, Peter Hall, made a loud statement in an interview with a major newspaper. He said that in all the burned buildings, without exception, the “Crying Boy” was found intact. Hall said he was forced to talk about this by an accident that happened to his own brother Ron. He, in a desire to refute the curse of the painting, deliberately purchased “The Crying Boy.” However, some time after this, his house in Swallonest, south Yorkshire, burned down for no apparent reason. Ron personally examined the fire and found the damned reproduction intact and intact.
After this loud statement, the newspapers were immediately covered with a wave of letters in which people described various accidents, deaths and fires that occurred after the owners acquired this painting. Of course, “The Crying Boy” immediately gained fame as a damned picture. The story of how the painting was painted came to light. Many rumors and fabrications arose. As a result, the British publication The Sun published a publication on September 4 in which it stated that every owner of this painting must immediately get rid of it, and the authorities prohibit buying and hanging the painting in their home. And then he even offered to send them killer paintings in order to burn them all together. More than 2,500 paintings were immediately sent to the editor. They were then ceremoniously burned under the control of firefighters.
Who is the author of the famous killer painting?
It soon became clear that the paintings that were found in the fires were copies of the same work. The authorship of some of them was attributed to the Spaniard Giovanni Bragolin, while others were attributed to the Scottish artist Anna Zinkeisen. In total, about five different reproductions were found. They had only one thing in common - they depicted crying children. These paintings were sold en masse in English department stores in the 1960s and 1970s.
Fact vs Fiction - Dispelling Myths
Giovanni Bragolin is actually a pseudonym. The author's real name is Bruno Amadio. He was born in 1911 in Venice. Under his works, the author rarely put given name. Another name of his is also known - Franco Seville.
“The Crying Boy” is actually not one work, but a whole series called “Gypsy Children”. There were 27 paintings in total. Children depicted in the paintings were most often crying or gloomy.
Bruno did not die in the fire. His biography says that the artist’s death occurred in 1981, and the man died of old age. The public saw the famous painting in early 1950. They liked the paintings, and thanks to one fairly large publishing house, about 50,000 reproductions were released. In almost every working-class neighborhood, paintings were readily bought.
As for fires, the victims were predominantly old, fire-hazardous houses of low-income families. The integrity of the painting, and the fact that it did not suffer in the fire, was attributed by the publisher to the high density of the paper on which it was printed. Therefore, it was quite difficult to set it on fire.
Notoriety versus art
“The Crying Boy” still hasn’t gotten rid of its damned fame. Especially if you ask an Englishman about it. What’s interesting is that the original has not yet been found. However, there were cases when people specifically purchased this painting to test the effect of the curse. So far there have been no reports of new fires caused by the painting. Although the number of people willing to check the legend is small.
Now, hanging on my wall old painting, or its reproduction, it is worth considering whether it is connected with any mystical stories. You never know...
Along with paintings of political and social protest, humanity is also aware of paintings that inexplicably bring misfortune and even death to people. They are called curse paintings or killer paintings. To fall under the influence of their villainous spells, you don’t need to keep such paintings in your home. Often evil fate begins to haunt people after the first glance at them.Curse of the Crying Boy
In the early 1980s, a painting called “The Crying Boy” was found in England, and copies of it immediately became very popular. But the painting was soon declared cursed - the story about it was on the front pages of newspapers throughout the UK in the summer and autumn of 1985.
The incredible fate of the painting is explained by the following: after a series of unexplained house fires, it was discovered that the same painting - a cheap reproduction of a crying boy - was present in each of the rooms where the fire started. This detail might be dismissed as an absurd coincidence, if it were not that in every case, without exception, only this painting escaped damage, while everything around it burned to the ground.
The unusual phenomenon became public knowledge in the summer of 1985, when Peter Hall, a Yorkshire fireman, said in a newspaper interview that fire brigades across Northern England had found countless copies of this very painting that had remained untouched by the fire.
Hall only spilled the beans after his own brother Roy, who did not believe the story, deliberately bought a copy of The Crying Boy to disprove its curse, and shortly afterwards his house in Swallonest, south Yorkshire, for reasons unclear, burned to the ground. Seeing that the painting lay completely intact in the middle of the charred ruins, Roy Hall hastily crushed it with his boot.
Following this publication on British media There was a flurry of letters and calls from the owners of “Boy” who suffered in the same way. So, Dora Brand from Mitcham, in Surrey, saw her house turn into ashes six weeks after she bought the painting. And although she had more than 100 other paintings, this was the one that survived. Sandra Craske, from Kilburn, said she, her sister, mother and their friend were all burned after they each purchased a copy of The Boy.
Information also came from Leeds, Nottingham County, from Oxfordshire and from about. White. On October 21, Parillo's Pizza Palace, in Great Yartmouth, Norfolk, burned to ashes, but The Boy was left in excellent condition. Three days later the Godbers, from Herrinthorpe, South Yorkshire, also lost their home. During the fire, the reproduction hanging in their living room remained undamaged, although everything around it was completely burned. The next day in Heswapple, Merseyside, a pair of Boy paintings hanging in the living and dining room of the house owned by the Amos family survived while the entire building... was torn apart by a gas explosion. Then "The Boy" made himself known with another fire at the house of Fred Trower from Telford, Shropshire.
One of the newspapers immediately invited all owners of the painting to organize a mass burning of it. And although most in Britain believed that the whole story was a long-running joke, the former owners of "The Boy" did not agree with this. By November 1985, some former owners of “The Boy” had acquired nervous illnesses because it always seemed to them that the spirit of the painting they had destroyed intended to take revenge on them. Meanwhile, mysterious fires continued throughout the country. One of the firefighters later admitted: “I never believed in curses before. But when you see an intact painting in a completely burned room, and it is the only thing that was not damaged, then you understand that this has crossed all boundaries.” And on the night of November 5, 1985, bonfires burned throughout England, where residents burned thousands of reproductions of “The Crying Boy.”
What was it? How can a painting cause a fire in which everything but itself burns? Mystics pointed to a poltergeist or evil spirit that lived in the "Crying Boy." But why then did copies of this painting have the same effect? Here, paranormal researchers suggested that the cause was the painting itself, or rather, its image. Perhaps the drawing itself contained the key, and it was the image that caused the phenomenon that caused almost everything to burn except the painting itself.
In turn, psychics and dowsing specialists argued that all works of art retain part of the energy of their creators, and this energy can be both positive and negative. However, this did not explain the terrible phenomenon of the “Boy”. According to psychics, paintings can only influence people’s mood and well-being, but not cause fires.
Some researchers of the phenomenon insisted that the artist who painted the picture mistreated the model, and the boy uttered a curse in retaliation. But skeptics, who saw in this story only random coincidences and manifestations of prejudice, rejected such an explanation. And the phenomenon of the “Crying Boy” remains unexplained to this day.
"Scream" brings death
One more mystical story associated with famous painting Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's "The Scream". It is considered one of the most recognizable in world painting and is even called canonical, like Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” or Malevich’s “Black Square”. 
The painting depicts a hairless, suffering creature with a head like an upside-down pear, with her palms pressed to her ears in horror and her mouth open in a silent scream. The convulsive waves of this creature’s torment, like an echo, disperse in the air around its head. This man (or woman) seems to be trapped in his own scream and has covered his ears in order not to hear it.
A mystical curse is associated with this painting, which, according to art historian and Munch specialist Alexander Prufrock, is confirmed real stories. Dozens of people who in one way or another came into contact with the canvas, whose value is estimated at $70 million, were exposed to evil fate: they fell ill, quarreled with loved ones, fell into severe depression or suddenly died. All this gave the painting a bad reputation, and museum visitors in Oslo looked at it with caution.
But even here there was no escape from her. One day, a museum employee accidentally dropped the painting. After some time, he began to have terrible headaches, although he had not suffered from them before. The migraine attacks became more and more frequent and severe: the poor man finally could not stand it and committed suicide.
Another time, a museum worker dropped a painting while it was being hung from one wall to another. A week later he got into a terrible car accident, as a result of which he broke his legs, arms, several ribs, received a crack in his pelvis and a severe concussion. And one day one of the museum visitors decided to touch the painting with his finger, and a few days later there was a fire at his house in which he burned alive.
The life of Munch himself, born in 1863, was also a series of endless tragedies and shocks: illness, death of relatives, madness, for which he was treated with electric shock. He never married because the thought of sex terrified him. The artist died at the age of 81, leaving a huge creative legacy to the city of Oslo: 1200 paintings, 4500 sketches and 18 thousand. graphic works. But the pinnacle of his work remains “Scream”.
Other works by the artist:
Wave
Self-portrait with a bottle of wine
Melancholy
“People with weak psyches should not watch!”
The painting Hands Resist Him by American Bill Stoneham, painted in 1972 by old photograph, where he was photographed at age 5. There is even a special recommendation regarding this picture that says: “People with weak psyches should not watch it.” The scandal surrounding the painting began after one of the exhibitions where it was exhibited. Mentally unbalanced people who viewed it suddenly became ill - they lost consciousness, began to cry for no reason, and had convulsions.
And for the first time the painting was shown to the owner and art critic of the Los Angeles Times, who later died. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not. The painting was then acquired by actor John Marley (died 1984). Then the most interesting part begins: the painting was unexpectedly discovered in a landfill among a pile of garbage. The couple who found it brought the painting home, and on the first night their little 4-year-old daughter ran into her parents’ bedroom screaming that the children depicted in the painting were fighting. The next night, the daughter reported that the children in the painting were outside the door. Then the head of the family installed a video camera that responded to movement overnight in the room where the painting hung. To his amazement, the video camera went off several times!
After this, the painting was put up for auction on eBay. Soon, eBay administrators began receiving letters to their email addresses with complaints about poor health, loss of consciousness, and even heart attacks. The painting sold for $1,025, from a starting price of $199. It was purchased by Kim Smith from a small town near Chicago for his art gallery.
That would have been the end of the story, but letters of complaint now began to arrive at Smith's address. Many of them, as before, spoke of feeling unwell after viewing the film. But there were those who wrote about the evil emanating from the canvas, and therefore they demanded that it be burned.
American psychics Ed and Lorraine Warren, who became famous after exorcizing demons in the Amityville House in 1979, offered their services to Smith, but nothing helped. Mediums associate the painting with the well-known murder of Satillo in the hills of California in the United States. The ghosts of the two children, they claim, still haunt the house in the hills. “We saw the boy. He wore a light T-shirt and shorts. His sister was always in the shadows. He seemed to be protecting her. Their names were Tom and Laura, and they are exactly like the children depicted in the picture,” say the psychics.
Repin's evil rock
Mystical evil fate haunts and famous painting Ilya Repin "The Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan." This painting became the largest discovery of the late 19th century. and is recognized as a masterpiece of world painting. It was called the most optimistic and cheerful work of Russian painting. Critics wrote: this canvas contains all types of human laughter - from loud laughter to a restrained smile. The work caused a sensation international exhibitions in Chicago, Budapest, Munich, Stockholm. The painting is still kept in St. Petersburg state museum. Repin himself considered it perfect and said: “You can neither remove nor add a stroke on this canvas...”
At one time the picture amazed and Russian Emperor Alexandra III. He did not hesitate to pay 35 thousand rubles for it. This was an unheard of amount at that time. But then everything turned upside down: the painting was suddenly called cursed. What happened to her?
Repin worked on the masterpiece for more than 13 years. The prototypes of the main characters of the picture were... the artist’s friends. If only they knew how this would turn out for them! Thus, the head of Kiev Mikhail Dragomirov, who posed in the image of the chieftain Sirko, turned from a sweet, cheerful person into a heavy drunkard and domestic tyrant. After a quarrel with him, two of his sons committed suicide, and only daughter gone crazy.
A brilliant scientist and philanthropist Vasily Tarnovsky (in Repin's painting - a gloomy Cossack with a donkey) went bankrupt and ended his days in a shelter for beggars. Another hero of the picture, a smiling clerk in glasses, the famous historian Dmitry Yavornitsky, was declared politically unreliable and spent several years in exile in Tashkent. After a series of these misfortunes, the frightened Repin hastily removed from the canvas the figurine of a little Cossack woman, which he painted from his own son...
By the way, Repin finished the portraits of the surgeon Pirogov and the composer Mussorgsky literally the day before their death. And Russian Prime Minister Stolypin was shot the day after the artist finished working on his portrait. Premature death also befell 8 other models of the artist.
Portrait of Pirogov
Portrait of Mussorgsky
What was it - an accident or an evil fate that dominated Repin? Alas, the answer to this question remains unanswered.
Prepared by Oleg Lobanov,
“The Crying Boy” is a painting by the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin, also known as Bruno Amadio. A reproduction of this painting is considered cursed by superstitious people, and it causes a fire in the premises where it is located.
It is no secret to anyone, even the most skeptical person, that in the world there is such a thing as a “curse.” There are many so-called cursed places on the planet. But objects can also contain a curse. The reasons why this happens are still unknown. An example of this is the damned painting “The Crying Boy.” Until now, everything connected with this picture instills in people an incomprehensible feeling of anxiety and misunderstanding of what is happening...
Is this a cruel curse or the most inexplicable coincidences in history? Everything described below gives reason to believe that the curse that some objects contain may still exist. I believe that everything that happened with the painting “The Crying Boy” can hardly be called a coincidence...
Damn picture.
In mid-1985, throughout the UK, stories related to fires and a cheap reproduction of the painting “The Crying Boy” that mysteriously survived these unrelated fires were on the front pages of newspapers. A reproduction of this painting was located where the fire started. This could well be explained as an absurd coincidence, but she alone remained unharmed, while everything around was destroyed by fire.
“The Crying Boy” is a painting by the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin, also known as Bruno Amadio. A reproduction of this painting is considered cursed by superstitious people, and it causes a fire in the rooms where it is located.
The artist of this picture, the boy's father, terribly mocked his son. The boy was very afraid of fire, and his father, in order to give the picture brightness and mystery, lit matches in front of his face, thereby making him cry. Unable to withstand such abuse, the child shouted to his father: “Burn yourself.” The child died of pneumonia a month later, and a couple of weeks later the artist’s charred body was found in the burnt house next to the only thing that survived the fire - the painting “The Crying Boy.” This is the story of this painting...
This unusual phenomenon was talked about at the beginning of the summer, when Yorkshire fireman Peter Hall, in an interview with a major newspaper, reported that all fire brigades in Northern England began to find countless reproductions of this painting that remained untouched by the fire, which began for completely unknown reasons. Peter Hall let this fact slip in an interview only after his brother, who completely refused to believe in this mythical story, bought a reproduction of “The Crying Boy,” and thereby decided to disprove that this painting was cursed. Soon after this, his house, which was located in the south of Yorkshire, in Swallonest, burned to the ground, for unknown reasons. Seeing that the damned painting was the only thing that survived the fire, Roy Hall angrily crushed it with his boot.
After the publication of this interview, a British daily received huge amount calls and letters from owners of reproductions of paintings who suffered in the same way. Dora Brand's home in Mitcham, Surrey, burned to the ground six weeks after she bought the painting. Although there were more than a hundred other paintings in the house, only one painting survived the fire...
Sandra Craske, from Kilburn, said her sister, mother, their friend and herself were all injured in the fires after they each came into possession of a copy of the cursed painting. Similar information also came from the counties of Nottingham, Oxfordshire and the Isle of Wight. On October 21, the Parillo Pizza Palace building in Great Yartmouth burned to the ground, leaving only the Crying Boy in excellent condition. Three days later, the Godber family, who lived in Herrinthorpe (South Yorshire), also lost their home in a fire. And only the reproduction of “The Boy,” which hung in the living room, miraculously survived, although all the other paintings were burned.
The next day, in the house that belonged to the Amos family in Heswaple (Merseyside), literally torn to pieces by a gas explosion, only a couple of paintings of “The Crying Boy” remained unharmed, which hung in the dining room and living room of the house. A day later, a new report was received, this time a fire occurred in the house of former fireman from Telford (Shropshire) Fred Trower. The only reproduction has also survived.
One of the newspapers invited all owners of reproductions of the damned painting to organize a mass burning of this painting. By the fall, some of the owners who destroyed the painting acquired nervous illnesses. It seemed to them that the cursed painting, which they had destroyed, now intended to take revenge on them.
Several fire brigades approached for comment on the growing hysteria surrounding the painting flatly refused to discuss it or participate in any of the mass burnings of the painting that were taking place across the country. Meanwhile, the tragedies continued...
On November 12, Malcolm Vaughan, living in Gloucestershire, helped his neighbor destroy another “Crying Boy”. After he returned home, he saw that the entire living room of his house was on fire, which had broken out for some unknown reason. A few weeks later, a fire destroyed a house in Weston nad Maroy (County Avon), killing its occupant, 67-year-old William Armitage. This incident made headlines because the damn picture was discovered absolutely whole side by side with the charred body of an old man. One firefighter who took part in extinguishing the fire said: “Before, I never believed in a curse. However, when you have to see an intact painting in a completely burnt room - the only one that was not damaged, then you have to understand that this goes beyond all boundaries.”
Since then, in the press and then on the Internet, the old story periodically comes to life, and in absolutely various options. For example, it is argued that if the reproduction is treated well, the “Crying Boy” can, on the contrary, bring good luck to its owner. You be the judge...