1970's clown oil paintings-Marcelino?

Question

I have a couple of oil paintings of clowns purchased in Italy in the early 1970's. It is hard to read the atrist's name and I was hoping someone out there might know something. It looks to be Marcelino. Anybody?

Answer 1

This link is for the name said: http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&...

Marcelino Vespeira

Marcelino Macedo Vespeira (Samouco, Alcochete, 9 September1925- Lisbon, 22 February2002) was a Portuguese painter. He started to paint in the neo-realist or social realism style, since 1945, but moved to the Surrealist Group, organized in Lisbon, in 1947, were he was one of the leading names. He latter painted also in a more abstract style. Vespeira, MarcelinoVespeira, MarcelinoVespeira, MarcelinoVespeira, Marcelino

This is hard to pin point who is the artist of your two paintings, also there are many paintings of this title "1970's clown oil paintings":  http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&...

May be you would like to have a look through to find the match pairs.