| LC control no. | n 81108384 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Arikha, Avigdor, 1929-2010 |
| Variant(s) | Arikha, A. (Avigdor), 1929-2010 אריכא, אביגדור אריכא, אביגדור, 1929-2010 |
| Associated country | Israel |
| Associated place | Cernăuți (Romania) |
| Birth date | 1929-04-28 |
| Death date | 2010-04-29 |
| Place of birth | Rădăuți (Romania) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | Art Painting Art--History |
| Affiliation | Betsalʼel (Academy) École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Painters Illustrators Art historians |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Jerusalem. Israel Museum. Avigdor Arikha, 1966. Obras maestras del Museo del Prado, 1996: t.p. (A. Arikha)p. 9 (Avigdor Arikha) New York times WWW site, May 3, 2010 (in obituary published Apr. 30: Avigdor Arikha; b. Apr. 28, 1929, Czernowitz, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine); d. Thursday [Apr. 29, 2010], Paris, aged 81; internationally renowned Israeli painter whose work captured both the haunting beauty and the looming menace of everyday things, a vision informed in no small part by his experience as a Holocaust survivor) Avigdor Arikha, 1973: title page, etc. (אביגדור אריכא = Avigdor Arikha; Avigdor Arikha [in rom.]; b. 1929 in Bukovina; arrived in Israel 1944 as part of the Youth Aliyah; seriously wounded in the Israeli War of Independence; studied art at the Bezalel School and Ecole de Beaux-Arts, philosophy at the Sorbonne; painter, illustrator, and author of articles and essays on art published in Hebrew, French, and English) Wikipedia, via WWW, 30 Jan. 2017 (Avigdor Arikha, April 28, 1929-April 29, 2010; Romanian-born French-Israeli painter, draughtsman, printmaker and art historian; born in Rădăuți but grew up in Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now Ukraine); emigrated to Palestine 1944; 1946-1949 attended the Bezalel School of Art; in 1949 won a scholarship to the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris, where he studied till 1951 and learned the fresco technique; from 1954 he resided in Paris; d. Paris from complications of cancer on April 29, 2010) |
| Associated language | eng fre heb |
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