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Nude on a Divan by Amedeo Modigliani, 1918
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
According to Wikipedia, his one solo show — full of nudes like this one — got shut down by the police the day it opened. He died broke a couple of years later, and now his paintings sell for fortunes.
Flowers in a Handled Vase by Edward Middleton Manigault, 1920
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
According to Wikipedia he starved himself on purpose, trying to see colours nobody else could see, and it killed him at thirty-five. That's presented as fact, not legend, which makes a vase of flowers feel like higher stakes than it should.