Houston 10 Shoe Hospital (1982)

Houston 10

When Franco came back to Europe after the 1980 America’s Cup experience and his stay in the USA, he was still full of impressions. In his atelier in Scheveningen he started a series of originals of Houston. All the originals were then shown at the Rice University of Houston and Dallas. Two paintings of this series, Houston Shoe hospital (1982) and Houston 10, Il cazzo (1981) got lost in the fire when his complete exhibition burnt in the wooden Societetshuset in Lysekil, Sweden (1985).

Houston Arte Vita

Franco noticed this enormous shoe on top of a building of a shoemaker in Houston. Houston Arte Vita (1981)

• Houston 10 Arte Vita (1981)
• Houston 10, Il cazzo (1981)
• Houston 10, Reflections (1982)
• Houston 10, Reflections Skyscraper (1982)
• Houston 10, Shoe Hospital (1982)
• Houston 10, Sitting just in the middle of the traffic (1982)
• Houston 10, 1981 (1981)