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Line 1: '''Rene Ricard''' (born '''Albert Rene Ricard''' in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], 1946) is- an1 ~~American~~February 2014 [[~~poet~~New York City]]<ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/rollingstone/article/Rene-Ricard-Poet-Painter-Art-Critic-and-Warhol-5197028.php ''Rolling Stone'' obituary in ''San Francisco Chronicle '' (February 1, 2014)]</ref><ref>[[http://galleristny.com/2014/02/rene-ricard-has-died Rene Ricard obituary in GalleristNY (February 1, 2014)])</ref> was an American poet, art critic]], and ~~[[Painting\|~~painter]]. Ricard grew up in [[Acushnet, Massachusetts]]. As a young teenager he ran away to [[Boston]] and assimilated into the literary scene of the city. By age eighteen he’d moved to [[New York City]], where he became a protégé of [[Andy Warhol]]. He appeared in the Warhol films ''[[Kitchen (1965 film)]]'' (1965) and ''[[Chelsea Girls]]'' (1966). He continued to be a frequent contributor to the [[Mel Lyman]]-owned underground paper [[Avatar (underground newspaper)\|The Avatar]], a Boston bi-weekly that was active until 1968. Line 15: Ricard was played by [[Michael Wincott]] in [[Julian Schnabel]]'s [[biopic]], ''[[Basquiat (film)\|Basquiat]]'' (1996). Ricard iswas reclusive and famously mercurial. He ~~lives and works~~lived at the [[Hotel Chelsea]] in [[New York City]] with his partner, the Portuguese artist Rita Barros.<ref name=STM>Levy, Ariel 'New York Storeys' ''The Sunday Times Magazine'', 25 March 2007, pp. 40-51. p. 47</ref> ==Death== Ricard died of cancer on February 1, 2014 at [[Bellevue Hospital]] in [[New York City]].<ref>[http://galleristny.com/2014/02/rene-ricard-has-died Rene Ricard obituary in GalleristNY (February 1, 2014)]</ref> ==References==