Moretti Raymond

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Raymond Moretti, born July 25, 1931 in Nice and died June 2, 2005 in Paris, was a French painter and sculptor. Known for his posters, illustrations, large-format works, and monuments such as the Rachi Memorial in Troyes, he left his mark on the 20th century with the diversity of his works.
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Raymond Moretti illustrated around thirty stamps for the French postal service, and from the 1970s onwards, his works regularly appeared on the covers of literary magazines. He also created the logo for the French Central Directorate of the Judicial Police.


Born into a modest Italian family, his father, an anarchist carpenter from Tuscany, and his mother, a devout Catholic from Umbria, influenced his artistic career. At the age of 16, in 1947, he paintedMoses breaking the Tablets of the Law, a work that entered the University Museum of Jerusalem, announcing the beginning of his remarkable artistic career.