Paris in 2008. From June to September 2008 the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid hosted another retrospective exhibition of the artist. The Estate of Avigdor Arikha has been represented by Blain Southern since 2018, with the first exhibition of landscapes in Berlin. In June 2019, 50 of Arikha’s works were exhibited in a retrospective of his work at the Benaki Museum in Athens. Awards and recognition 1954 Gold Medal, Triennial for Applied Art, Milan, Italy 1959 Prize, Painters and Sculptors Exhibition, Graduates of Youth Aliyah 1978 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France 1987 Grand Prix des Arts de la Ville Paris, Paris, France 1989 Prix des Arts des Lettres et des Sciences, Fondation du Judaïsme Français, Paris, France 1995 Honorary Professor, National Academy of Fine Arts of China, Hangchow, China 1997 Doctor Honoris Causa of Philosophy, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2005 Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Paris, France Books on Arikha Arikha, by Samuel Beckett, Robert Hughes, André Fermigier(et al.) (Paris: Hermann; London: Thames and Hudson, 1985) Arikha, by Duncan Thomson (London: Phaidon, 1994) Avigdor Arikha, by Monica Ferrando and Arturo Schwarz (Bergamo: Moretti & Vitali, 2001) Avigdor Arikha: From Life – Drawings and Prints, 1965–2005, by Stephen Coppel and Duncan Thomson (London: British Museum Press, 2006), published to accompany their 2006–07 exhibition. Arikha, catalogue of the exhibition at the Thyssen-Borenmisza Collection, Madrid, Ed. Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza 2008. References External links Arikha at Blain|Southern Arikha Online British Museum – Avigdor Arikha 1929 births 2010 deaths Contemporary painters Israeli art historians Israeli emigrants to France French art historians Jewish historians Draughtsmen Romanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Israeli male painters People from Rădăuți Romanian Jews Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni Israeli portrait painters French male non-fiction writers Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur 20th-century printmakers Deaths from Merkel-cell carcinoma Israeli printmakers French printmakers