Lot 21
  • 21

Avigdor Arikha

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Avigdor Arikha
  • Canadian Envelope
  • signed Arikha and dated 77 (lower left); signed again and dated 20 XII 77 (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvas
  • 15 by 18 1/8 in.
  • 38.1 by 46 cm.
  • Painted in 1977.

Provenance

Marlborough Fine Arts Inc., New York and London

Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Avigdor Arikha: Oil Paintings - Watercolors - Drawings, May-June 1978, no. 15, illustrated in the catalogue p. 9
Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery, Modern Painters Series: Avigdor Arikha, June-August 1979
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Avigdor Arikha Selected Paintings 1953-1997,  November 1998-June 1999, no. 17, illustrated in the catalogue p. 42

Literature

Robert Hughes, 'Arikha's Elliptical Intensity', TIME, July 30, 1979, illustrated p. 71
Samuel Beckett et. al, Arikha, London, 1985, no. 66, illustrated
Lap Sze-to, 'The Painter for Painters II - interview with Avigdor Arikha', Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, vol. VI, August 1991, pp. 58-68, illustrated p. 67

Condition

Oil on unlined canvas. The picture surface is in generally good condition aside from minor surface dirt, especially at the extreme edges. There is also a very small loss in the lower right quadrant of the yellow envelope at upper right. Under UV light, there are no apparent inpaints visible.
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