Sentences with phrase «reliance on booze»

Weakened by a heavy reliance on booze and butts — images of which litter the artist's late self - portraits, along with cholesterol - heavy French fries — Guston died of a heart attack at the same age as Rothko, sixty - seven, yet was still at the height of his powers and on the eve of the unprecedented fame that resulted from his traveling retrospective of 1980 - 1981.