Mr. Talpazan, who said he had an encounter with a U.F.O. in Romania when he was young, sold his visionary works on the sidewalks of Manhattan before being discovered in the late 1980s.

Mr. Talpazan, who said he had an encounter with a U.F.O. in Romania when he was young, sold his visionary works on the sidewalks of Manhattan before being discovered in the late 1980s. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/arts/design/ionel-talpazan-whose-ufo-art-had-sightings-all-over-dies-at-60.html