Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha dies at 81
Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha, who learned the power of art as a boy during the Holocaust when he sketched scenes from a concentration camp onto salvaged scraps of paper, has died in Paris. He was 81.
Romanian-born Arikha, a painter, draftsman and printmaker, went on to become one of Israel's most important contemporary artists, imbuing his portraits and scenes of daily life - a red umbrella against a wall, an overflowing bookshelf, a jumble of bottles in a cabinet - with enigmatic, disconcerting beauty. (AP)
