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CORRECTS MARY MAX'S AGE TO 52, NOT 53 - FILE - In this June 14, 2017, file photo, artist Peter Max acknowledges applause during the unveiling of the theme art he created for the 2017 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Authorities say Mary Max, 52, the wife of the artist Peter Max, was found dead Sunday, June 9, 2019, in New York, of a suspected suicide amid a family fight over her husband’s work. Her death comes two weeks after The New York Times published a story detailing legal battles over the work of Peter Max, a prolific creator of colorful, psychedelic art who is now living with dementia at age 81. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Artist Peter Max’s wife found dead in a suspected suicide

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

In this Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, artist Peter Max, right, and his wife Mary Max, left, attend the Somaly Mam Foundation Gala in New York. Authorities say Mary Max, 53, was found dead Sunday, June 9, 2019, in New York, of a suspected suicide amid a family fight over her husbands work. Her death comes two weeks after The New York Times published a story detailing legal battles over the work of Peter Max, a prolific creator of colorful, psychedelic art who is now living with dementia at age 81. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Mary Max, wife of Peter Max, dies in suspected suicide

By Verena Dobnik - Associated Press