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Avigdor Arikha
"Avigdor Arikha is one of the most independent-minded artists of our time. In 1965 at the height of a successful career as an abstract painter in Paris and New York he suddenly stopped painting to return to drawing from life in order to assuage a 'violent hunger in the eye' released by his experience of the great Caravaggio exhibition of that year. When he returned to painting in 1973 it was to begin on the series of intensely observed portraits, nudes and still lifes for which he is now known world wide. His intimate still lifes include such 'local' subjects as a bundle of asparagus, a corner of his Paris studio and the books on his library shelves. His portraits range from informal studies...
Avigdor Arikha
May 7 - June 6, 1992
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Avigdor Arikha
Highly acclaimed for his abstract works, Avigdor Arikha's subjects ranged from self-portraits; portraits of his wife and his friend Samuel Beckett; to intimate interiors, such as the corner of his studio flat or still-lifes of mundane objects. This catalogue features 100 works on paper made by Arikha.
Avigdor Arikha
March 20 - April 12, 2012
Avigdor Arikha
November 8-December 4, 1984
Avigdor, Arikha
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On Depiction: Selected Writings on Art
A marvellous book which teaches us how to see. There is not a word out of place. And the author’s seriousness allows us to feel his full passion, what really matters for him… This book will provide me lasting company, and I will often look in its pages for backing for my own judgements. —Jean Starobinski When a great painter also happens to be an intelligent and cultivated one, his observations on art count a hundred times more than a critic’s or a historian’s do. A man’s knowledge of his own craft is both irreplaceable and indispensable. —Simon Leys Throughout his whole development I have never ceased to admire the acuteness of his vision and his faultless insight into the art...
Avigdor Arikha
Many children draw, but Avigdor Arikha's drawings were noticed at the age of twelve, when he was deported to a Romanian-run concentration camp in Transnistria. His drawings of the harrowing scenes he had witnessed in the camp, were shown to Red Cross delegates, and were the catalyst for the transportation of Arikha and 1500 further children to Palestine in 1944. After studying at Jerusalem's Bezalel School of Art, followed by a scholarship to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, Arikha struck up close friendships with Alberto Giacometti and Samuel Beckett, whose sparing use of language taught him the significance of every brush stroke. These friendships lasted throughout their lives and accompanied Arikha in the creative shift from his abstract period to what he described as his 'post-abstract naturalism'."
Avigdor Arikha
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