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Avigdor Arikha April 28, — April 29, was a Romanian-born French—Israeli painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and art historian. His family faced forced deportation in to the Romanian-run concentration camps of Transnistria, where his father died. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of the International Red Cross.

Arikha emigrated to Palestine in , together with his sister. Until , he lived in Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha. In he was severely wounded in Israel's War of Independence. From to , he attended the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem.

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In he won a scholarship to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he learned the fresco technique. From , Arikha resided in Paris. Arikha was married from until his death to the American poet and writer Anne Atik, with whom he had two daughters. Arikha died in Paris on April 29, , the day after his 81st birthday.