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#401 · July 19, 2024, 2:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1910 courtesan and demi-mondaine, notable art collector and salon hostess, Émilie-Louise Delabigne, countess Valtesse de La Bigne died in Ville-d'Avray, France aged 62. Cimetière de Ville d'Avray (portrait by Manet) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/19/day
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#402 · July 20, 2024, 1:58 pm
20 July 2011. Lucian Freud died (aged 88). He was one of the leading 20th century portrait artists. He was born in Berlin, and was the grandson of Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape Hitler’s antisemitic policies.
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#403 · July 21, 2024, 2:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1977, photographer and photojournalist Lee Miller died of cancer at her home, Farley Farm House in Chiddingly, East Sussex aged 70. She was cremated, and her cremated remains were spread through her herb garden at Farley thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/21/day
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#404 · July 26, 2024, 2:10 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1971 photographer Diane Arbus died from an overdose of barbiturates in her home in the Westbeth Artists Community in Manhattan, age 48. Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/26/day
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#405 · July 29, 2024, 1:49 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1890, post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh died from complications of a self-inflicted gunshot to the chest in Auvers-sur-Oise, France at the age of 37. Auvers-sur-Oise Town Cemetery next to his brother Theo thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/29/day
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#406 · August 2, 2024, 1:42 pm
2 August 1788. Thomas Gainsborough died (aged 61). He’s considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He was a prolific portrait painter, but also produced many acclaimed landscapes.
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#407 · August 3, 2024, 2:23 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2004 artist, humanist photographer, master of candid photography, pioneer of street photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson died in Céreste, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, aged 95. Cimetière de Montjustin, France thefinalfootprint.com/?p=3382
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#408 · August 6, 2024, 2:06 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1660, artist Diego Velázquez died in Madrid, aged 61. Entombed in the Fuensalida vault of the church of San Juan Bautista, within eight days his wife Juana was entombed beside him. The church was destroyed around 1809 and their bodies lost thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/06/day
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#409 · August 11, 2024, 2:23 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1956 artist Jackson Pollock died at the age of 44 in a single-car crash in his Oldsmobile convertible, along with passenger Edith Metzger, while driving in Springs, New York. Green River Cemetery in Springs thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/11/day
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#410 · August 12, 2024, 1:54 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1988 artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died of a heroin overdose in his art studio in Manhattan at the age of 27. Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/12/day
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#411 · August 13, 2024, 2:20 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1863, artist Eugène Delacroix died at home in Paris with his trusted housekeeper, Jenny Le Guillouat at his side, at the age of 65. Père Lachaise in Paris (Self Portrait) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/13/day
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#412 · August 15, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1935 Neo-Impressionist painter who helped develop the artistic technique Pointillism, Paul Signac died from sepsis in Paris at the age of 71. Cremation. Père Lachaise Cemetery (portrait by Georges Seurat) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/15/day
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#413 · August 15, 2024, 1:52 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1967 surrealist artist, who became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images, René Magritte died of pancreatic cancer in Brussels, aged 68. Schaerbeek Cemetery, Evere, Brussels thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/15/day
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#414 · August 20, 2024, 2:05 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2006 photographer (Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), war correspondant, Pulitzer Prize recipient, honorary Marine, Joe Rosenthal died of natural causes in his sleep in Novato, California aged 94. Cremated remains scattered; San Francisco Bay thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/20/day
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#415 · August 21, 2024, 1:48 pm
21 August 1911. The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci was stolen by a former Louvre employee in Paris, France. Two years went by before It was found in Italy and returned. The culprit was an Italian petty criminal called, Vincenzo Perugia, who had moved to Paris in 1908.
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#416 · August 27, 2024, 2:04 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1576, artist Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, da Cadore, Il sole tra piccole stelle, Titian died from a fever in Venice, in his eighties or nineties. Entombed in the Frari, Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/27/day
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#417 · August 27, 2024, 2:04 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1971 photographer (first American female war photojournalist, Fort Peck Dam the cover of the first issue of Life magazine) Margaret Bourke-White died at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, from Parkinson's aged 67. Cramation thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/27/day
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#418 · August 28, 2024, 1:52 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1995 painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, actor, Earl W. Bascom died at his ranch in Victorville, California aged 89. Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Apple Valley, California thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/28/day
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#419 · August 31, 2024, 1:50 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1963 painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor, Georges Braque died in Paris aged 81. cemetery of the Church of St. Valery in Varengeville-sur-Mer, Normandy thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/31/day
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#420 · August 31, 2024, 1:51 pm
31 August 1986. Acclaimed sculptor Henry Moore died (aged 88). He’s best known for his semi-abstract bronze sculptures. He turned down a knighthood in 1951 because he felt the honour would lead to a perception of him as an establishment figure.
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