A Breath

About the author

Avigdor Arikha was one of the most independent-minded artists of the twentieth century. In 1965, at the height of a successful career as an abstract painter, he suddenly stopped painting to return to drawing from life, in order to assuage a ‘violent hunger in the eye’ released by his experience of the great Caravaggio exhibition at the Louvre that year. When he returned to painting in 1973, it was to begin a series of intensely observed portraits, nudes, and still lifes for which he is known worldwide.

Summary

Take in the range of Arikha's achievement in this thoroughly illustrated catalog. Alongside Arikha’s art the book features commentaries on his work and six of his own essays.

Product details

• Publisher: Eris
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2020
• EAN: 9781999798130
• ISBN: 978-1-9997981-3-0
• No. of pages: 382
• Illustrations: 65 colour reproductions of artworks; 36 photographs from the exhibition; 18 images of the artist; 48 scans from sketch books; 12 scans of drawings
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art