Moretti Raymond

Biography

Raymond Moretti is a French painter and sculptor of the 20th century, born July 25, 1931 in Nice and died June 2, 2005 in Paris 13th. He is known for his varied achievements, including posters, large formats, illustrations, as well as monuments such as the Rachi memorial in Troyes.
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Raymond Moretti illustrated around thirty stamps for the French post office and, from the 1970s, his works regularly appeared on the covers of literary magazines. He is also the creator of the logo of the Central Directorate of the French Judicial Police.
Raymond Moretti was born to Italian parents of modest origins; his father, an atheist, was an anarchist carpenter from Tuscany, and his mother, a fervent Catholic, was an Umbrian housekeeper, having fled Mussolini's fascist Italy.
At the age of 16, in 1947, he painted "Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law", a work which entered the Museum of the University of Jerusalem.