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KERSTIN CARLVANT-BOYSEN

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CARLVANT-BOYSEN-- Kerstin. Born Swedish in 1942, died in a nursing home in Lammhult, Sweden, on September 15, 2025. Cause of death was a stroke having suffered dementia for many years. After emigrating to the US, she graduated in 1978 from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in Art History, specifically Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts. Over the ensuing decades she was an Independent Scholar, using a family home in Bruges as a summer research base. Her lasting work was published in 2012, entitled: "Manuscript Painting in Thirteenth- Century Flanders : Bruges, Ghent and the Circle of the Counts." She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Peter Boysen of New York, and two sisters in Sweden.

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Published by New York Times on Oct. 15, 2025.

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Jason R. Gettinger

October 15, 2025

Peter, although this was not unexpected, representing the end of a very difficult period for you and Kerstin, condolences must be made in recognition of a woman of great and unusual accomplishment and your successful marriage.

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