Henri Cueco

Henri Cueco (19 October 1929 – 13 March 2017) was a French painter, essayist, novelist and radio personality. 
His work was exhibited internationally. He was the author of several books, including collections of essays and novels. He was also a contributor to France Culture. 
He was a communist-turned-libertarian, he was a co-founder of Coopérative des Malassis, an anti-consumerist artists collective. He was best-known for "The Red Men", a series of figurative paintings depicting aspects of the Cold War like the May 1968 events, the Vietnam War and Red Scare, and his 150 still lifes, or "portraits," of potatoes.
Cueco died of Alzheimer's disease on 13 March 2017 in Paris, aged 87.