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Selinsgrove PA United States
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Francisco Poblet was privately trained by the great Salvador Dali in the late 40's.
These images are what Francisco witnessed after he fled his apartment near the twin towers on that fateful day on 9-11-2001.
While hospitalized for 10 years after the attack, Francisco painted the scenes that unfolded in front of him that day, he even flat-lined 5 times, and every time he awoke from the "tunnel of Death" or seeing the "white light", he would open his eyes, sit up and ask for his paintbrush and frantically paint those images he so vividly remembered.
Please visit us at: www.franciscopobletfineart.com
Contact Art Representative: Carleen Lenner at carleensuzanne@gmail.com
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Francisco Ciccio Poblet was born in New York City in 1932, his father Franco was from Barcelona, Spain, and his mother from Sicily. At age 11 Francisco sold his first painting which was a landscape, at age 14 he met Salvador Dali at a Spanish Conference through his father who was friends with Dali. For the next three years a young Francisco would go to The St. Regis Hotel where Salvador and his wife Gala lived, and would spend hours with his mentor who taught him to paint the masters along with his own paintings, and more so, to think about what he saw on the canvas, and to paint through his imagination of the images.
On September 11, 2001, Francisco lived two blocks from the Twin Towers and when the first tower started crumbling, it blew windows out of his apartment which was two blocks from the towers, not knowing what had happened, he grabbed his camcorder and went down the elevator, as soon as he got down to the street, the second tower came crumbling down and Francisco was hit with the burning debris and the "dust of death". Francisco spent ten years hospitalized, and still painted every day the images he witnessed on that fateful day. There were five times that he had flatlined, and when he awoke, the first thing he would ask for was his paintbrush, he could not stop his hands, it was almost like they had a mind of their own and just floated above the canvas, painting the fear and the anguish on the faces of the victims and many of the first responders who risked their life that day, and unfortunately, many gave their lives that day trying to save the innocent.
Francisco will be 84 years old on October 18th, 2016, and he still paints daily.
Thank you, Art Representative, Carleen Lenner carleensuzanne@gmail.com