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“La Giganta,” on exhibition in January during the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Mr. Cuevas’s museum in Mexico City.
Sashenka Gutierrez/European Pressphoto Agency; thumbnail, Tomas Bravo/Reuters, 2009
José Luis Cuevas
Died on July 3, 2017 at age 83
Mr. Cuevas’s rebellious personality and dark delineation of human suffering made him one of the most celebrated Mexican artists of the 1950s and ’60s.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.