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LOT 26:
ARIKHA, AVIGDOR
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Sold for: $6,000
Start price:
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5,000
Estimated price :
$5,000 - $7,000
Buyer's Premium: 23%
sales tax: 8.875%
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Adam and Eve.
Oil on canvas. Signed by the artist in Hebrew and English and dated lower left. Framed. 23.5 x 19 inches; 59.5 x 48.5 cm.
1956.
Raised in Bukovina, Arikha and his family were deported to the Romanian-run concentration camps of Transnistria where his father died. In 1944 safety was found in British-Mandate Palestine although Arikha was severely wounded fighting in Israel's War of Independence. In 1949 he attended the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem, after which Arikha won a scholarship to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, a city he settled in permanently from 1954. It was in Paris that Arikha developed close and lengthy friendships with such luminaries as the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. An abstract-turned-realist artist, Arikha uses a minimal number of tones to express shade and texture and the intrinsic attempt to capture the spirit of the subject matter. His work is reminiscent of other abstract-expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky.
Provenance: Acquired from the Arta Gallery, Jerusalem.
