Avigdor ARIKHA
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Pair of Gloves © 1972 Avigdor Arikha |
Avigdor Arikha was born in Bukovina, Romania, in 1929. This Israeli artist is known for his skills as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and writer. At the early age of 13 his drawings attracted enough attention to save his life from the Nazi labor camps. He later studied in Paris (which he made his home in 1954) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1949-51). Arikha stopped painting in 1965 and limited himself to only drawing and etching in black and white. In 1973 he resumed painting and began to work exclusively from life, painting quickly in oil on canvas on an intimate scale well-suited to his intimate subjects that most commonly include his wife, the view from his home in Paris, still-lifes, interiors and landscapes.
Arikha's work can be found in public collection worldwide including Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; The Jewish Museum, New York, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massschusettes; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France; usée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, Paris, France; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; National Portrait Gallery, London, England; Scottish National Gallery of Modern, Edinburgh, Scotland; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and the Tate Gallery, London, England.
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| Tangerines 1983 Soft-ground etching 10.5 x 7.5 inches Edition of 75 Published by Marlborough Graphics © 1983 Avigdor Arikha |
Samuel Beckett Seated |
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