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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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艺术家不是死于平常的疾病，而是死于他曾经名噪一时的作品被遗忘的癌症侵袭更令人悲伤的事呢？例如《雅尔塔的四月》或《古桥》。我们别再唠叨他选错了流亡地点，也不要在他那凄凉的床边徘徊停留了。

他的儿子亚当·林德比他成功（他受一本目录上印刷错误的启发，心照不宣地漏掉了姓里的最后一个字母）。三十岁时他成为一名时尚摄影师，娶了芭蕾舞演员兰斯卡雅，