Author Interview: Gabrielle Selz's "Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis"
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'Ten He Saw the Northern Lights'
In the summer of 1940s, a young Samuel Beckett went to see the northern lights. He was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis and put in plaster corset sandwiched between two pieces of canvas. The pain caused him to lose his mind but he started painting 16 hours a day. His first position as a painter was looking down on um, hanging above a painting - that's how he became an artist.
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