John Walker, known as Johnnie Walker, began his career at the age of 14 when his father died in 1819. The family farm sold, the young orphan acquired a small grocery store in the heart of Scotland. At the time, most grocers stocked up on quality single malts, some of which were the best and some the worst. In an effort to present his customers with whiskies of consistent quality, Johnnie Walker began blending. When John died in 1857, his son Alexander took over his flourishing business. In 1867,...

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The messy appearance of Leroy's thick works also exudes a certain kinship with dripping, the art of the American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). And Eugene Leroy worked like a Willem De Kooning with perseverance on soulful landscapes. A photo symbolizes Leroy's artistic approach: we see the painter in his studio full of paintings waiting to be reworked, pots of color, flowers and an ashtray placed on an electric heater and on the left a large skeleton with crossed leg bones....