![Romualdo Locatelli - Balinese Girl [1939]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5818/22110743739_46057f84db_o.png)
Romualdo Locatelli (1905 - 1943), a painter, was born in Bergamo, in Northern Italy. At the age of twenty he first exhibited and began to receive critical recognition. He made a study trip to Tunisia in 1927, followed by trips to Sardinia, Tuscany and the Veneto. Locatelli disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Rizal forest near Manila on February 23, 1943, after making a number of remarkable works in the Philippines including a presidential portrait. Prior to his death as many as 75 of his works were destroyed by the Japanese firebombing of Manila.
[Bonhams - Oil on canvas, 155 x 117.5cm]