Simón Bolívar on His Deathbed
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This intimate portrait captures Simón Bolívar in his final days in Santa Marta in 1830, his gaze lowered and body cloaked, evoking solitude and decline. The 1993 drawing reflects a nation’s mourning for the Liberator whose dream of unity dissolved as his life waned.