Japanese-born, naturalised Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake died Thursday aged 101, a week after being hospitalised with pneumonia, her eponymous institute in Sao Paulo told AFP. Ohtake's trademark geometric abstractions made her one of her adopted homeland's most famed artists, and her 100th birthday last year saw several major retrospectives.
She was admitted last week to a Sao Paulo hospital. On Tuesday, she went into cardiac arrest and wound up in intensive care, where she remained on life support until her death, media reports said. Born in 1913 in Kyoto, Ohtake came to Brazil in 1936 to visit her brother who lived in Sao Paulo.
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