Obituary: Painter Calix Moreau, King of Beige (1934–2025)

The world has lost Calix Moreau, painter, performance artist, and, according to Vogue in 1987, “the man who made beige cool.” He died on August 14th, 2025, at his studio-loft in Marseille, surrounded by half-finished canvases, three broken espresso machines, and what friends insist was not a taxidermied goat but “an ongoing installation.” He was … Read more

Obituary: Elsinora Thistlebaum (1927–2025), Painter of Fruit

Elsinora Thistlebaum, the internationally misunderstood doyenne of post-impressionist-neuroticism, passed away peacefully last Tuesday at her home in Bruges, surrounded by her seventeen cats and a bowl of her favourite oranges. Born in a hot air balloon above Zurich during a thunderstorm in 1927, Thistlebaum was the daughter of an avant-garde mother, Isolde Thistlebaum, a woman … Read more