The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.

The French beauty shared a brief kiss with Catherine Deneuve in a memorable scene from the Luis Buñuel film about a high-class brothel.

A painter who took his subjects from pop culture, he was also the founding editor of Artnet.com and chronicled the rise of ...