Four Famous Last Meals
painted by Derek Kosbab:
Research indicates that some of the stories below are apocryphal rather than factual.
Regardless they interesting stories as the topics for paintings.
This is a set of 4 paintings known as ‘Famous Last Meals’.
Francois Mitterand (1916-1996) was the 21st President of the French Repulic.
His last meal consisted of: oysters, foie gras, capons and roasted ortolan. Ortolan is a small brownish songbird that has a greyish head, a yellow throat, and an orange-brown body. Usually, ortolans are netted. Once caught they are blinded or kept in a lightless cage and overfed for a month then drowned in a snifter of Armagnac. Gourmands eat roasted and stuffed ortolans in one mouthful with the fingers, and with a napkin over the head to capture the intense aroma and to hide from God the sight of such barbarousness.
Francois Mitterand
Acrylic on canvas: 505mm x 505mm
Ricky Ray Rector
On death row and about to die in the electric chair for murdering two men, Ricky Ray Rector—without a frontal lobe from a failed suicide attempt—having had a last meal of steak, fried chicken and Cherry KoolAid, was asked by prison guards why he had not eaten the slice of pecan pie he had ordered. Ricky Ray replied that he was saving it for later.
Ricky Ray Rector
Acrylic on canvas: 505mm x 505mm
Roman Emperor Caligula
Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated by eating poisoned mushrooms prepared by his wife Agrippina so that her son Nero could take the throne.
Roman Emperor Caligula
Acrylic on canvas: 505mm x 505mm
Buddha
Buddha died after eating pork, and possibly mushrooms/truffles, cooked by Cunda, a blacksmith, from which Buddha became violently ill and died.
Buddha
Acrylic on canvas: 505mm x 505mm
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