Avigdor Arikha: Works 1990 - 91

Arikha, Avigdor

Marlborough Gallery

Avigdor Arikha was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. He was born in Romania to German-speaking Romanian Jewish parents and spent most of his life in Paris. A talented child, he started drawing early on. During the Second World War, he was deported to a concentration camp in the Ukraine, where he drew the horrors he witnessed. These drawings saved his life. During the 1950s, he established himself in Paris and was enjoying a successful career as an abstract painter. In 1965, a Caravaggio exhibition prompted him to convert to drawing from life. He stopped using colour until 1973, when he started again to paint. He worked with a religious, almost war-like, intensity until his death.\nArikha was also an erudite and passionate scholar, endowed with a deep understanding of the history of art and its techniques, well-versed in world history and fascinated by science. He wrote many essays and curated important exhibitions of masters such as Poussin, Velázquez and Ingres.\nIn this collection of essays that he wrote between 1965 and 1994, Arikha expounds on art and artists (Mantegna, Velázquez, Poussin, David, Ingres, Degas, Matisse, and more), technique, seeing, and the state of culture in his day, which, one could argue, is no more hopeful today―almost thirty years later―than it was then.

On Depiction: Selected Writings on Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Eris

From 19 June until 8 September 2019, the Benaki Museum presented the first-ever exhibition in Greece devoted to Avigdor Arikha, a modern master of figurative painting. The exhibition showcased more than fifty of his works gathered from the artist's own collection (now part of private collections and the artist's estate), as well as deportation childhood drawings, and a selection of pages from some of the artist's sketch books. This impeccably produced three-volume slipcased edition chronicles the exhibition and its contents in painstaking detail. Take in the range of Arikha's achievement In this thoroughly illustrated catalog, alongside his art the book includes six of his essays on art, which are in equal measure perceptive, erudite, and forceful. These are accompanied by valuable critical commentaries and essays on Arikha and his work by, amongst others, Jean Clair, Monica Ferrando, and Michael Peppiatt. The catalogue closes with a wealth of illuminating reference material documenting the artist's life and career, as well as rarely before seen archival photographs of Arikha himself.

Avigdor Arikha: A Breath

Individual Artists

Arikha

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

HERMANN

Arikha: Recent works : oils, pastels, drawings : Marlborough New York, September 12-October 5, 2002

Marlborough

Avigdor Arikha: Tsiyurim nivḥarim, 1953-1997 (Ḳaṭalog)

Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel

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