Fay, Emmanuel
(1894–1923)
Fay, EmmanuelFay, EmmanuelEmmanuel Fay (B * PARIS 1894 (?) – D † NEW YORK 1923) Painter and art critic, he committed suicide in the United States in 1923, though Gide (1869 – 1951) writes that, rather than active suicide, he neglected himself to death. American composer Virgil Thomson (1896 – 1989) writes: »He was strong in mind, weak in body, intense from withheld emotion, in manners sweetly reserved, as if smiling over pain. He loathed the Catholicism of his family.« and »There is only one…