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Tue May 1, 2018, 11:11 AM May 2018

Gerson Leiber, 96, Dies; Artist Created Museum With Designer Wife.

For info.

'Gerson Leiber, an American modernist painter whose ambitions were stunted until he attended art school in Budapest, where he had served in the Army during World War II, died on Saturday at his home in Springs, N.Y., a hamlet in East Hampton. He was 96.

He died of a heart attack hours before his wife of 72 years, Judith Leiber, the renowned handbag designer, died, also of a heart attack, at 97. They were buried together on Monday.

Jeffrey Sussman, the couple’s biographer and spokesman, said Mr. Leiber, who had congestive heart failure, told his wife on Friday night, “Sweetie, it’s time for both of us to go.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/obituaries/gerson-leiber-96-dies-artist-created-museum-with-designer-wife.html?

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