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  • Avigdor Arikha (April 28, – April 29, ) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and art historian.
  • Avigdor Arikha (Israeli) Composition, circa oil on canvas h w: 40 cm.
  • Avigdor Arikha (Hebrew: אביגדור אריכא; April 28, – April 29, ) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.

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    Avigdor Arikha

    Avigdor Arikha (אביגדור אריכא)

    Avigdor Arikha

    Avigdor Arikha (אביגדור אריכא)

    • April 28, ; Rădăuţi, Romania  
    • April 29, ; Paris, France  
    • French,Jewish,Romanian,Israeli
    • Expressionism,Contemporary Realism
    • portrait,still life
    • painting,printmaking
    • Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
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    Avigdor Arikha (April 28, – April 29, ) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and art historian.

    Avigdor Arikha (originally Victor Długacz) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, but grew up in Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now in Ukraine). His family faced forced deportation in to the Romanian-run concentration camps of Transnistria, where his father died. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of the International Red Cross.

    Arikha emigrated to Palestine in , together with his sister. Until , he lived in Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha. In he was severely wounded in Israel's War of Independence. From to , he attended the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem. In he won a scholarship to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he

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    Avigdor Arikha: From Life: Drawings and Prints - Softcover

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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 After formal art training in Jerusalem, Arikha first came to Paris in , 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 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 , his work has remained uncompromisingly figurative; it is executed directly in front of the subject and always in one sitting.

    His subjects - whether self-portraits; portraits of his wife, the poet Anne Atik, his friend Samuel Beckett or fellow artists and musicians; intimate interiors, such as the corner of his studio flat in Paris or still-lifes of objects as seemingly mundane as a pair of shoes or