Each day, Le Figaro tells the fatal car accident of a celebrity. Today, the history of the American painter strongly alcoholic, including the Oldsmobile 88 Decapotable slips on the night of August 11, 1956 on a bucolic road in Long Island.
Recrocalled on the back seat of the Oldsmobile 88 green hood lowered, Edith Metzger yells to break everything. “Stop the car. Let me go down. »» Relving brunette with short hair, the friend of Ruth Kligman, a young mistress of the painter Jackson Pollock, is terrorized by the artist’s insane state. His powerful hands are clinging behind the wheel, his bust leaning forward as if he was going to take off the machine in which the two friends have just sought after a brief stop in a bar to call. The trio was on the road to East Hampton (New York State) to go to a concert at Creeks. On the verge of Georgica Pond (the Georgica pond), the house and its gigantic park belong to the American-Philippin collector Alfonso (1916-1990) who acquired them in 1951 on the advice of his friend Jackson Pollock. The house is the epicenter of the New York artistic community exiled during the summer or the year at Long Island, Air lung …