Avigdor Arikha

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  • Avigdor Arikha, born in Bukovina, a German-speaking part of Romania, survived the horrors of the Holocaust through the drawings he made as a young adolescent in the concentration camps. These came to the notice of the International Red Cross, which rescued him and helped him to reach a kibbutz in Palestine in 1944. After formal art training in Jerusalem, Arikha first came to Paris in 1949, where he mixed with the post-war Paris abstractionists and made lifelong friendships with Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti. He now lives in Paris and Jerusalem. Highly acclaimed for his abstract works, in 1965 Arikha dramatically gave up painting and for the next eight years focused exclusively on drawing from life in black and white and on making prints in his studio using a special etching process. Although he returned to painting in 1973, his work has remained uncompromisingly figurative; it is executed directly in front of the subject and always in one sitting.

  • Product code: cmc26470
    Price category: £10 to £25
    World culture: The modern era
    Title: Avigdor Arikha
    Subtitle: From Life: Drawings and Prints 1965-2005
    ISBN: 9780714126470
    Number of pages: 144
    Size: 270x240mm
    llustrations: 115 colour
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