Sentences with phrase «few years before his death»

Lemann once told Brazil's HSM Management magazine how he'd visited Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Panasonic, a few years before his death in 1989.

A few years before his death, he received some of the Jews who remembered that he had been their true friend during and after the war.

In the last few years before his death at age 77, he was President of the Devizes Conservative Association.

By Sidney Lumet (Unrated) The legendary director reflects upon his life and career in this revealing biopic based on an intimate interview conducted a few years before his death in 2011.

The artist portrait was created in his large - room tapestry a few years before his death.

Among the least familiar names is John Farris, a Beat poet who added art to his repertory a few years before his death in 2016 and was known mostly on the Lower East Side.

Made a few years before his death in 1965, they represent his last fling with geometric abstraction.

As a form of international recognition for his oeuvre, he was awarded the Grand Prix for Sculpture in Venice in 1962, a few years before his death.

A few years before his death he established the Karel Appel Foundation, with the purpose of preserving his artworks for the public.

Bringing together nineteen paintings, this exhibition is a rare occasion to see many of Alberto Burri's masterpieces, and it charts a course from his early work, at the beginning of the 1950s, to that from a few years before his death, in 1995.

I enjoyed looking at your pictures very much but when I got to the end and read that your sink came from Signature Hardware, it made me cry because my deceased son worked there for a few years before his death.

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«9 In 1876 Melville, in describing the happy domestic scene of a mother and child, remarked, «Under such scenes abysses be — / Dark quarries where few care to pry.10 Perhaps he remembered that day not ten years before when his own eldest son, 18 years old, shot himself to death in his room at home.

At the time Fiori's biography was written there was only a rumor of this, reported by Wladmir Rabi in «Du nouveau sur Simone Weil» (Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Autumn 1971) After many years of silence, to spare the sensibilities of Weil's family, Simone Dietz, who was very friendly with Weil in New York and later in London, where they worked for the Free French, told a meeting of the American Weil Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 1988 that at Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's death.

Yale Law Professor Arthur Leff expressed the bewilderment of an agnostic culture that yearns for enduring values in a brilliant lecture delivered at Duke University in 1979, a few years before his untimely death from cancer.

Paul thought that the last days had come, that before his death the Messiah would appear, and that in the few remaining years there were more important tasks afoot than founding families.

I'm pretty sure the insight that not breathing = death was worked out by humans a few thousand years before we even invented medicine.

A few months before his death he wondered out loud whether he had been given an extra 20 years so that he could bring the message of natural hormone balance to so many people.

It yielded his fifth and final fruitless Best Director Oscar nomination, leaving him to accept an honorary award a few years before his 1982 death.

Krasner is one of the few artists on this list who saw a retrospective of her work mounted during her lifetime (in 1983, a year before her death).

And for decades, until just a few years before his tragic death, he even camouflaged his authentic artistic voice.

The works include one of the few paintings by Gustav Klimt in private hands, a 1907 garden landscape estimated at $ 45m (# 36m); and an important Jean - Michel Basquiat work that went under the hammer in 1987, a year before his death.

Arshile Gorky emigrated to America, where - a few years before his tragic death - he met the European emigrants Joan Miro and Robert Matta, under whose influence he created his distinctive style of «living organisms floating in vivid colour».

The series, dating from 1965 and 1966, was completed just before the closing of the Ferus Gallery in 1967, and just a few years before Altoon's death of a heart attack at age 44 in 1969.

Does the 2 year suicide clause in an 18 year old whole life policy with Northwestern Mutual Life Ins get started over if the beneficiary is changed a few months before death?

It is simple math: when an older person buys a policy, the life insurance company expects to have fewer years to collect premiums before it has to pay a death benefit.