Lennart (Anders) Anderson - Artist Info

About Lennart (Anders) Anderson

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    Following is the obituary of Lennart Anderson from The New York Times, October 19, 2015.

    "Lennart Anderson, Painter Who Put Modern Twist on the Masters, Dies at 87"
    By William Grimes.

    Lennart Anderson, one of the most prominent and admired painters to translate figurative art into a modern idiom, died on Thursday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 87.

    The cause was prostate cancer, his daughter Jeanette Wallace said.

    Mr. Anderson brought a deep understanding of masters such as Piero della Francesca, Velázquez, Poussin and Degas to his still lifes, portraits, landscapes and streetscapes, while applying a modern twist that lifted them from the common run of academic realism.

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