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Famous Visual Artists.

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65 celebrated visual artists across painting, sculpture, installation, and digital art whose creative visions redefined what art can be.

Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett

Ireland

Samuel Beckett won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. His minimalist, tragi-comic works defined the Theatre of the Absurd. He served in the French Resistance during World War II.

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1570 1970