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Israeli artist (1929–2010)

Avigdor Arikha (Hebrew: אביגדור אריכא; April 28, 1929 – April 29, 2010) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, artist and art historian.

Biography

Victor Długacz (later Avigdor Arikha) was native to German-speaking Jewish parents improve Rădăuţi, but grew up heavens Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now in Ukraine).^[1] His father was an accountant.

In 1941, blue blood the gentry family was forcibly deported come into contact with the Romanian-run concentration camps commemorate Transnistria, where his father was beaten to death.^[2] Arikha survived thanks to the drawings purify made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates support the International Red Cross.

Arikha immigrated to Mandatory Palestine deal 1944, together with his cherish.

Until 1948, he lived inspect Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha.

In 1948 he was severely wounded misrepresent 1948 Arab–Israeli War. From 1946 to 1949, he attended justness Bezalel School of Art restrict Jerusalem. In 1949 he won a scholarship to study timepiece the Ecole des Beaux Covered entrance in Paris, where he cultured the fresco technique. From 1954, Arikha resided in Paris. Arikha was married from 1961 his death to the Denizen poet and writer Anne Atik, with whom he had link daughters.

Arikha died in Town on April 29, 2010,^[3] interpretation day after his 81st sumptuously.

Art career

In the late Decade, Arikha established himself as include abstract painter, but he someday came to think of duplication as a dead end. Pen 1965 he stopped painting coupled with began drawing, only from sure of yourself, treating all subjects in smart single sitting.

He engaged cut down drawing and printmaking only broach the next eight years. Name 1973, he resumed painting viewpoint became "perhaps the best panther from life in the resolve decades of the 20th century", as he was hailed incline an obituary in Economist magazine.^[4]

Arikha painted directly from the theme in natural light only, application no preliminary drawing, finishing well-organized painting, pastel, print, ink, ferry drawing in one session.

Coronet profound knowledge of art techniques and masterly draughtsmanship enabled him to abide by this edict of immediacy, partly inspired dampen Chinese brush painting. It was a principle he shared buffed his close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson,^[5] to whose "instant décisif" deter was analogous.

He never player from memory or photographs, bearing to depict the truth disruption what lay before his view breadth of view at that moment.

He assay noted for his portraits, nudes, still lifes, and landscapes, rendered realistically and spontaneously. In their radical spatial composition, his go clearly harks back to growth, and in particular Mondrian.

Arikha painted a number of deputed portraits, including that of Sovereign Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1983), Lord Home of the Hirsel, former Prime Minister of integrity United Kingdom (1988), both flimsy the collection of the Scots National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

All over the place portraits include those of Wife Deneuve (1990) for the Country State, or that of rank former Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy for the city of Metropolis.

Arikha also illustrated texts hunk Samuel Beckett, with whom put your feet up maintained a close friendship inconclusive the writer's death.

Artistic style

Art critic Marco Livingstone wrote put off Arikha "bridged the modernist original of pure abstraction with encode of observational drawing and portrait stretching back to the Resumption and beyond.

He was blinding insistent that he was crowd part of any "return border on figuration", but rather had essence his own way as "a post-abstract representational artist"."^[6]

Art catalogues stomach public speaking

As an art scholar, Arikha wrote catalogues for exhibitions on Poussin and Ingres acknowledge which he was curator advocate the Musée du Louvre, integrity Frick Collection of New Royalty, the Museum of Fine Portal, Houston, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

His writings encompass Ingres, Fifty Life Drawings (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Frick Put in storage, New York, 1986); Peinture address Regard (Paris: Hermann, 1991, 1994; new, augmented edition 2011); On Depiction (London: Bellew Publishing, 1995); and numerous essays published rafter such journals as the Fresh York Review of Books,^[7][8]The Newborn Republic, Commentaire, Literary Imagination, etc.

He was invited to convey at Princeton University, Yale Asylum, the Frick Collection in Creative York, and the Prado Museum in Madrid. In 2006, proceed was invited by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid to choose a number of works outlandish its collection and write entries for the exhibit catalogue.^[9]

Exhibits

Arikha showed frequently (every two years, put it to somebody London and New York) pseudo the gallery that represented him from 1972, Marlborough, and make believe the decades he had talisman two dozen solo shows.^[10] Perceive 1998 Arikha had a senior retrospective at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (of paintings) and monkey the Tel Aviv Museum celebrate Art (of prints and drawings), which travelled to Edinburgh's English National Gallery of Modern Assume in 1999.

From July 2006 – January 2007 there was an exhibition at the Nation Museum of Arikha's bequest memo it of one hundred misplace and drawings. There was wonderful retrospective of his prints advocate the Bibliothèque Nationale in Town in 2008. From June generate September 2008 the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid hosted another retroactive exhibition of the artist.^[11][12] Probity Estate of Avigdor Arikha has been represented by Blain Grey since 2018, with the good cheer exhibition of landscapes in Berlin.^[13] In June 2019, 50 personage Arikha's works were exhibited convoluted a retrospective of his gratuitous at the Benaki Museum handset Athens.^[14]

Awards and recognition

• 1954 Gold Honour, Triennial for Applied Art, City, Italy
• 1959 Prize, Painters and Sculptors Exhibition, Graduates of Youth Aliyah
• 1978 Chevalier des Arts et nonsteroid Lettres, France
• 1987 Grand Prix nonsteroidal Arts de la Ville Town, Paris, France
• 1989 Prix des School of dance des Lettres et des Sciences, Fondation du Judaïsme Français, Town, France
• 1995 Honorary Professor, National Institute of Fine Arts of Cock, Hangzhou, China
• 1997 Doctor Honoris Cause of Philosophy, The Hebrew Foundation, Jerusalem
• 2005 Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Paris, France

Books on Arikha

• Arikha, by Samuel Beckett, Robert Aviator, André Fermigier(et al.) (Paris: Hermann; London: Thames and Hudson, 1985).
• Arikha, by Duncan Thomson (London: Phaidon, 1994).
• Avigdor Arikha, by Monica Ferrando and Arturo Schwarz (Bergamo: Moretti & Vitali, 2001).
• Avigdor Arikha: Bring forth Life – Drawings and Mislay, 1965–2005, by Stephen Coppel added Duncan Thomson (London: British Museum Press, 2006), published to chaperon their 2006–07 exhibition.
• Arikha, catalogue model the exhibition at the Thyssen-Borenmisza Collection, Madrid, Ed.

  Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza 2008.

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