Ionel (Adrian DaVinci) Talpazan - Artist Info

About Ionel (Adrian DaVinci) Talpazan

  • Biography

    The following obituary is from The New York Times

    "Ionel Talpazan, Whose U.F.O. Art Had Sightings All Over, Dies at 60"

    By William Grimes, September 29, 2015

    Ionel Talpazan, an outsider artist from Romania who sold his visionary works of U.F.O.s and life in outer space on the sidewalks of Manhattan before being discovered in the late 1980s, died on Sept. 21 in Manhattan. He was 60.

    The cause was complications of a stroke and advanced diabetes, Aarne Anton, his dealer at the American Primitive Gallery in SoHo, said.

    Mr. Talpazan claimed that one night in the Romanian countryside, when he was 8, a strange, hovering shape slowly descended from the sky, enveloping him in a celestial blue light, and then...

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