O/B PAINTING SIGNED JEAN CLAUDE QUILICI, 1941 LA CAMPOLE ROUGE AT MYKONOS, 10 X 14 Jean-Claude Quilici was born of Corsican origin in the heart of Marseille in 1941. Still quite young, he had an inclination towards painting and began to attend classes at the official "Ecole des Beaux-Arts" and soon afterwards, recognizing his gift for painting he was taken under the wings of the great masters of "l'Ecole de la Peinture Provencale" with whom he was to show his first paintings in his native town in 1958. Henceforth, painting became his vocation. Between 1960 and 1971, he received numerous painting awards which further distinguished the beginning of the young artist and during this period several shows of his works were organized by several french galleries.