Live Auction 7668The Collection of R.B. Kitaj
Avigdor Arikha (b. 1929)
Lot 348

Avigdor Arikha (b. 1929)

Samuel Beckett in profile (Coppel 10)

Closed7 February 2008

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GBP 2,750

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Avigdor Arikha (b. 1929)
Samuel Beckett in profile (Coppel 10)
etching, 1970, on Richard de Bas wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered ea IV/XV, aside from the edition of 75, printed in 1976, with margins, generally in very good condition, framed
Plate 236 x 175 mm., Sheet 345 x 272 mm.

Acquired directly from the artist.

Specialist note

Arikha met Samuel Beckett in 1956 establishing a strong friendship which was to last until Beckett's death in 1989. The Irish playwright had a profound effect on the artist's life and work and was the subject of many of his prints and drawings.