From 1956 they walked, talked and drank together all over Paris, rake-thin writer and corkscrew-haired artist, ranging with formidable scholarship over art, literature, music and language.

ECONOMIST: Avigdor Arikha, painter of life, died on April 29th, aged 81

But in addition to the intensity of the artist's involvement with his art, he sincerely believed that he had developed a universal structural and aesthetic language suitable for all the building needs of our time.

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