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Meir Pichhadze

1987

Abstract painting of three oval shapes on the left and butterflies amid thick brush strokes in a frame on the right.
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Creator Bio

Meir Pichhadze

1955–2010

Meir Pichhadze was born in Soviet Georgia and immigrated to Israel in 1973. He is known for his figurative and abstract paintings, which he created with industrial paint. He had solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Artist’s Studio (1994) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2003). He was the recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Prize (1982), the Israel Ministry of Education Prize for a Young Artist (1988), and first prize at the Ankara Biennale (1990). Pichhadze lived in Tel Aviv.

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