Drawing of the Lebanon War
Pinchas Cohen Gan
1982
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Pinchas Cohen Gan
b. 1942
Moroccan-born artist Pinchas Cohen Gan immigrated to Israel in 1949 and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and later at the Central School of Art in London, Hebrew University, and Columbia University. During the 1970s, he focused on performance-based installations, but later returned to painting and drawing. Cohen Gan has destroyed many of the estimated 120,000 images he has produced over his career (in one notorious incident, he dumped his paintings into the Hudson River). He is the recipient of the Dizengoff Prize (1995) and the Israel Prize for Painting (2008).
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