This obituary of an ‘acclaimed Sixties abstract painter who fell into almost complete obscurity only to be rediscovered by an art consultant in 2002’, takes a couple of quite unexpected turns, not the least of which is : “While worldly in some respects, his understanding of the machinations of the contemporary art world could be rather naive, a result of working in isolation for much of his career. Financially this was not a problem because by then he had become a successful manufacturer of teddy bears.”

Another person who was there when there was a there there, is no longer here.

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“Let others dollar up their art. Mine was unpriceable. It was to be bestowed.”

Kathy Boudin, of The Weathermen, was born on May 19, 1943. She died of cancer on May 1, 2022, aged 78.

Bamber Gascoigne, with his donnish appearance and patrician voice, was an unlikely candidate for television stardom. As the first quizmaster on University Chall