Still Life with Wine

Painter, draughtsman, printmaker, designer, and writer on art, Avigdor Arikha was born to German Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, Romania on 28 April 1929. Between 1965 and 1973 he concentrated on drawing and etching; among his best-known works are his portraits of his close friend the writer Samuel Beckett. In later life he painted portraits, landscapes, interiors and still-lifes.