Guess the Artist

Your clues this week are:

• The artist was born in Aragon, and became self-taught while recovering from tuberculosis as a teenager.
• Art and political activism often jockeyed for the most favorable post position in the artist's life. What started as opposition to the Franco regime grew into more global concerns with accompanying letters, essays, and manifestos. In fact, the artist was threatened with permanent expulsion from France at one point due to political statements.
• Most of the artist's personal papers (and a great deal of work) were destroyed in a suspicious house fire in 1979.

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• The subject of this piece is an internationally famous French woman whose third husband, a millionaire playboy, champion bobsledder, documentary filmmaker and art collector, committed suicide last year. Incidentally, and in case you were wondering, this is not meant to be an accurate likeness.

Please email me your guesses over the coming week. I'll post the winner and correct answer with next week's guessing game. Good luck!

Last Week's Answer:

Quite a few of you knew that the clues pertained to George Herms and his appropriately beatnikky Greet the circus with a smile (1961). Llyn was first to email with the correct answer, however. Congratulations, Llyn!