"Gradiva"
Salvador Dalí, 1931.
Dalí associated Gradiva with his wife Gala. They met in 1929 in Cadaqués, where Gala and her former husband Paul Éluard came to visit the artist. She soon became the center of Dalí's personal and artistic life.
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"Riding Death"
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1988.
In February 1987, Andy Warhol died during an uncomplicated operation. For Jean-Michel Basquiat, it was the most serious blow of his life. Warhol had been his mentor, his teacher, his guru. When Warhol died, Basquiat went into meltdown. He practically stopped writing, cut off many contacts, disappeared for a long time. In one of the last days of his life, the artist created the painting "Riding Death".
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"Lee"
Hans Giger, 1974.
When Giger's muse, Lee Tobler, saw this painting, she said: "You've made me ugly!" - and tried to destroy it by breaking the frame and cutting up the canvas. Giger, however, managed to restore the painting, and it eventually became one of his most famous works.
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