Vintage painting "Clowns". The canvas depicts two clowns, whose faces are highlighted against the general background due to saturated colors, while the main tone is sustained in a bluish, very delicate palette. In the lower right corner there is the signature of the author - A. Gonzales Collado. France, XX century.Antonio Gonzalez Collado was born in Spain in 1930. As a teenager, he had to leave school and start working, then he began to show a penchant for drawing. At the age of 17, he left Spain and lived and worked with his father in Tunisia, but even there he continued to get involved in painting. In his youth, he was a professional gymnast and when he was sent to France to compete, he was so fascinated by the Louvre that he promised himself to come back here. In 1956 he returned to France and this time he stayed. He took painting lessons at the Accademia de la Grande Chaumiere. In 1961 he received his first prize. Collado began to exhibit actively since 1968 in France, Belgium, Canada, Japan. His favorite theme is the circus, dancers and landscapes around Paris. The works are easy to recognize by their soft and charming palette, not devoid of sentimentality.