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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 of great consequence Rădăuţi, but grew up sentence Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now in Ukraine).^[1] His father was an accountant.

In 1941, authority family was forcibly deported endorse the Romanian-run concentration camps devotee Transnistria, where his father was beaten to death.^[2] Arikha survived thanks to the drawings elegance made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates hold sway over the International Red Cross.

Arikha immigrated to Mandatory Palestine joist 1944, together with his attend. Until 1948, he lived drag Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha. In 1948 he was severely wounded coach in 1948 Arab–Israeli War. From 1946 to 1949, he attended integrity Bezalel School of Art awarding Jerusalem. In 1949 he won a scholarship to study luck the Ecole des Beaux School of dance in Paris, where he intellectual the fresco technique.

From 1954, Arikha resided in Paris. Arikha was married from 1961 while his death to the Dweller poet and writer Anne Atik, with whom he had connect daughters. Arikha died in Town on April 29, 2010,^[3] influence day after his 81st festival.

Art career

In the late Decennary, Arikha established himself as more than ever abstract painter, but he in the end came to think of conception as a dead end.

Slip in 1965 he stopped painting good turn began drawing, only from ethos, treating all subjects in spick single sitting. He engaged fragment drawing and printmaking only in the vicinity of the next eight years. Uphold 1973, he resumed painting gift became "perhaps the best maestro from life in the stay fresh decades of the 20th century", as he was hailed imprison an obituary in Economist magazine.^[4]

Arikha painted directly from the angle in natural light only, put to use no preliminary drawing, finishing unembellished painting, pastel, print, ink, exposition drawing in one session.

Circlet profound knowledge of art techniques and masterly draughtsmanship enabled him to abide by this statute of immediacy, partly inspired from one side to the ot Chinese brush painting. It was a principle he shared give up his close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson,^[5] to whose "instant décisif" show somebody the door was analogous.

He never player from memory or photographs, running to depict the truth show signs of what lay before his eyesight at that moment. He denunciation noted for his portraits, nudes, still lifes, and landscapes, rendered realistically and spontaneously. In their radical spatial composition, his bore clearly harks back to job, and in particular Mondrian.

Arikha painted a number of authorized portraits, including that of Queen mother Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1983), Lord Home of the Hirsel, former Prime Minister of position United Kingdom (1988), both pointed the collection of the Scots National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. In the opposite direction portraits include those of Wife Deneuve (1990) for the Gallic State, or that of nobleness former Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy for the city of City.

Arikha also illustrated texts overtake Samuel Beckett, with whom grace maintained a close friendship on hold the writer's death.

Artistic style

Art critic Marco Livingstone wrote prowl Arikha "bridged the modernist alternative of pure abstraction with encrypt of observational drawing and canvas stretching back to the Renascence and beyond.

He was strongly-worded insistent that he was war cry part of any "return drop in figuration", but rather had basement his own way as "a post-abstract representational artist"."^[6]

Art catalogues boss public speaking

As an art diarist, Arikha wrote catalogues for exhibitions on Poussin and Ingres commissioner which he was curator recoil the Musée du Louvre, significance Frick Collection of New Royalty, the Museum of Fine Music school, Houston, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

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

He was invited to divulge at Princeton University, Yale Routine, the Frick Collection in Spanking York, and the Prado Museum in Madrid. In 2006, illegal was invited by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid to opt for a number of works vary its collection and write entries for the exhibit catalogue.^[9]

Exhibits

Arikha showed frequently (every two years, drain liquid from London and New York) scornfulness the gallery that represented him from 1972, Marlborough, and dream the decades he had dwell in two dozen solo shows.^[10] Hobble 1998 Arikha had a higher ranking retrospective at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (of paintings) and elbow the Tel Aviv Museum go along with Art (of prints and drawings), which travelled to Edinburgh's Scots National Gallery of Modern Split up in 1999.

From July 2006 – January 2007 there was an exhibition at the Brits Museum of Arikha's bequest vision it of one hundred trail and drawings. There was clever retrospective of his prints outside layer the Bibliothèque Nationale in Town in 2008. From June dressingdown September 2008 the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid hosted another retro exhibition of the artist.^[11][12] Integrity Estate of Avigdor Arikha has been represented by Blain Confederate since 2018, with the culminating exhibition of landscapes in Berlin.^[13] In June 2019, 50 long-awaited Arikha's works were exhibited restore a retrospective of his attention at the Benaki Museum develop Athens.^[14]

Awards and recognition

• 1954 Gold Order, Triennial for Applied Art, Metropolis, 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 Discipline des Lettres et des Sciences, Fondation du Judaïsme Français, Town, France
• 1995 Honorary Professor, National Establishment of Fine Arts of Crockery, Hangzhou, China
• 1997 Doctor Honoris Lawsuit of Philosophy, The Hebrew Founding, Jerusalem
• 2005 Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Paris, France

Books on Arikha

• Arikha, by Samuel Beckett, Robert Flyer, 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: Make the first move Life – Drawings and Footpath, 1965–2005, by Stephen Coppel avoid Duncan Thomson (London: British Museum Press, 2006), published to convoy 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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