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artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion invading his once famous pictures such as“April in Yalta” or “The Old Bridge[”]? Let us not dwell on the choice of the wrong place of exile. Let us not linger at that pity-ful bedside.

His son Adam Lind (he dropped the last letter on the tacite advice of a misprint in a catalogue) was more successful. By the age of thirty he had become a fashionable photographer. He married the ballerina Lanskaya,

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藝術(shù)家不是死于平常的疾病，而是死于他曾經(jīng)名噪一時(shí)的作品被遺忘的癌癥侵襲更令人悲傷的事呢？例如《雅爾塔的四月》或《古橋》。我們別再嘮叨他選錯(cuò)了流亡地點(diǎn)，也不要在他那凄涼的床邊徘徊停留了。

他的兒子亞當(dāng)·林德比他成功（他受一本目錄上印刷錯(cuò)誤的啟發(fā)，心照不宣地漏掉了姓里的最后一個(gè)字母）。三十歲時(shí)他成為一名時(shí)尚攝影師，娶了芭蕾舞演員蘭斯卡雅，