4. Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington
Blame Nazi Germany, who swooped Ernst into incarceration multiple times, for making the couple eat one of the tastiest shit sandwiches ever made.
After Ernst ditched his wife for the much younger English-born creative type, the heavy-hitting surreal artists were only able to consummate their love affair for a few years. Ernst would eventually escape captivity, but the injustices left them too broken (each suffered major emotional breakdowns) to reconnect.
Following the break-up, Ernst wed Peggy Guggenheim in a shotgun marriage that didn't last before re-marrying and painting until his death in 1976.
Meanwhile, the greatest living surrealist eventually fled to Mexico, married and birthed two sons. The 94-year-old badass currently lives and works in Ciudad de México, where her art can be found all over the city in various museums and public-art installations.
