Avigdor
Arikha
Early Life and Background Born: Radauti, Romania (1929) Died: 2010 Victor Długacz (later Avigdor Arikha) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, Bukovina, Romania. He grew up in Czernowitz, also in Bukovina. His family faced forced deportation in 1941 to the Romanian-run concentration camps …
A portrait built from Avigdor Arikha's own colours
Every 27 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
