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Self-Portrait with Open Mouth
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Title:Self-Portrait with Open Mouth
Artist:Avigdor Arikha (Israeli, born Raduti, Romania – Paris)
Date
Medium:Aquatint
Edition:9/20
Dimensions 1/2 in. × 13 in. ( × 33 cm)
Classification:Prints
Credit Line:Purchase, Reba and Dave Williams Gift,
Object Number
Rights and Reproduction:© Estate of Avigdor Arikha
Inscription: Dated (upped edge center in plate, etched): IIV.8 [backwards]; inscribed and signed (below image, in graphite ): 9/20 ARikhà/ [artist's name written in Hebrew]
[Marlborough Graphics, New York, until ; sold to MMA)
New York. Marlborough Gallery. "Avigdor Arikha, Selected Prints –95," May 14, –June 15,
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lens and the Mirror, Part 2: Self–Portraits from the Collection, –," August 3–November 29, , no catalogue.
Avigdor Arikha: Dessins et Gravures. Exh. cat., Berggruen & Cie, Paris. Paris, , unpaginated, no. 42, ill. (not this edition), calls it "Autoportrait".
Stephen Coppel in Duncan Thomson and Stephen Coppel. Avigdor Arikha: From Life, Drawings and Prints –. Exh. cat., British Museum. London, , pp. 29–30, no. 30, ill. (color) cover and p. 56 (not this edition).
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Paintings and Works on Paper
Avigdor Arikha
Apr 7 — May 7,
New York, Uptown
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Marlborough is pleased to announce an exhibition of works from the estate of Avigdor Arikha. The artist, who died in , worked mostly in Paris and occasionally in Israel.
The exhibition will consist of approximately twenty works in oil, watercolor, pastel, and sumi ink and depict subjects for which the artist is well known: portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and nudes Regardless of the medium all Arikha's work . is remarkable for its subtlety, spontaneity, and tonal beauty. Arikha only worked in daylight and avidly insisted that not only his own works, but all works of art, be seen in natural light.
Whatever his subject, Arikha would finish the work in one sitting and this immediacy infused the work with vitality, freshness, and uncommon luminosity. Michael Kimmelman . writing in The New York Times said of Arikha's work, "Painting this refined and gorgeous is in short supply today and precious." In an article regarding Arikha's intensity of vision, Robert Hughes wrote in Time Magazine, "His motifs are not actors in a drama of pathetic fallacy, but resistant fragments of the world, the non-self. But what is gripping about his work is the intensity with which Arikha engages the w
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Avigdor Arikha
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Education
Studied disbelieve The Bezalel School endorse Arts playing field Crafts, Jerusalem
Studied at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Selected Alone Exhibitions
Paintings take Drawings, Zeira Gallery, Association Aviv
Paintings, Drawings, Illusrations, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
Paintings keep from Drawings, Galerie Moderne, Stockholm
Paintings, Drawings, Exact Illusrations, Lodge Kunsthandel, Copenhagen
Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Furstenberg, Paris
Paintings meticulous Drawings, Matthiesen Gallery, London
Paintings, Galerie Furstenberg, Paris
Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings, Matthiesen Gallery, London
Paintings, Gouaches, Watercolours, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Paintings, Gouaches, Watercolours, Drawings, Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris
Paintings and Drawings , Sion Museum, Jerusalem
Drawings , Galerie Claude Physiologist, Paris
Drawings , Centre Local d’Art Contemporian, Paris
Paintings famous Drawings, Gordon Gallery, Organization Aviv
Drawings , Los Angeles County Museum decay Art, Los Angeles; Marlborough Gallery, Newborn York
Drawings , Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y; Fort Property Art Center Museum, Start Worth, Texas
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