10 recent paintings by artists who committed suicide

The site publishes a selection of stories that tell of the latest paintings of artists who have decided to settle accounts with life. It's a shame that there was so tragic lives of these talented people.

1. "Zebra and a parachute," Christopher Wood h2>



The painting "Zebra and parachute" in the sky is easy to see the skydiver, which hangs on the dome if dead. After the departure from Paris to England in August 1930, Wood met his mother in Salisbury, to show her his new works, including this painting. Due to the constant use of opium in Wood developed paranoia, and in a desperate attempt to avoid an imaginary pursuer Wood threw himself under a train on the day of arrival.

2. "Nude on the beach," John William Godward h2>

Artwork "Contemplation" and «Nu Sur La Plage» ( «Naked on the beach") was completed a few months before his death. «Nu Sur La Plage» is particularly unusual because it Godward deviated from his usual style image of women in beautiful clothes and wrote a nudes. In December 1922, Godward committed suicide, writing in a suicide note, that this world is not big enough for him and Picasso.

3. "Concert", Nicolas de Stael h2>

Nicolas de Stael in a relatively short career has created thousands of paintings and drawings. Only in the last five months of his life he painted 147 paintings, the last of which ( «Blue Nude Lying») was completed in 1955. In March of that same year, he committed suicide by jumping from a tall building in Antibes, and leaving painting «Le Concert »unfinished. Shortly before his death, Nicholas wrote: "I am unable to complete my pictures»
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4. "The death of James Dean," John Minton h2>

The day before the suicide Minton visiting artist Ruskin Spear said that the dying person on his painting reminds him of Hollywood actor James Dean, who died two years earlier in a car accident. Speer said that James Dean Minton represented for the younger generation suffering. In fact, the real identity of the dying man in the picture and has remained a mystery.

5. "Untitled" / "Black on gray," Mark Rothko h2>

Reputation of the abstract artist in many ways has developed thanks to his famous images of brightly colored rectangles. Toward the end of Rothko's life, his paintings are not as bright and vivid, and the last work was the painting without a title, written in black and gray. After the divorce with his wife, the artist suffered from severe depression and soon committed suicide by cutting the veins in his New York studio in 1970.

6. "Unhappy Family" Constance Mayer h2>

Constance Meyer committed suicide while working exactly on this picture. The work was completed by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, her roommate. They are often painted pictures together, so it is often difficult to tell where one ends creativity of the artist and the work of another begins. The couple had lived together for many years, but refused to marry Prud'hon Constanze. This has led to depressed women, and she cut her throat with a razor.

7. "A trip to the death," Jean-Michel Basquiat h2>

Jean-Michel Basquiat began his career as a teenager as a graffiti artist in Manhattan, and the painting started much later. His work quickly became widely recognized for their depth and composition, and Basquiat became widely known in the art world. Unfortunately, the artist hooked on heroin and died of an overdose at the age of 27 years.

8. "Nude Self-Portrait with Palette", Richard Gerstl h2>

Richard Gerstl created his best work during an affair with Mathilde, wife of the famous composer Arnold Schoenberg. Gerstl painted nude herself and Matilda. However, Mathilde eventually left him "for the sake of the children." Distraught, Gerstl killed himself at the age of 25 years, striking himself with a knife in the chest and hanging in his studio. His last work was the "Self-Portrait with Palette", completed in September 1908.

9. "Agony", Arshile Gorky h2>

During the two years before the death of Gorki experienced many unfortunate events. In 1946, in his studio there was a fire, during which many of his best works were burned to ashes. A few weeks after that Gorky was diagnosed with cancer. Shortly thereafter, the artist discovered that his wife was cheating on him. The couple divorced and two children stayed with Agnes. In 1948, bad luck ended Gorki that he broke his neck in a car accident, after which his hands were paralyzed. Not being able to write, he committed suicide a month later in his studio.

10. "The Garden of Daubigny," Vincent van Gogh h2>

The painting "Wheatfield with Crows" is often mistakenly considered to be the last work of Vincent van Gogh. An analysis of the artist's letters shows that "Wheatfield with Crows" was completed two weeks before his suicide in July 1890, which means that the actual final picture of Van Gogh is the "Garden of Daubigny". On the morning of July 27, 1890, Van Gogh went to the open air, but the walk shot himself in the chest, and 2 days later died in hospital at the age of 37 years.

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