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.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Untitled
The iconography in Pichhadze’s paintings from the 1980s defies easy definition. This untitled work incorporates both abstract and figurative elements. The framed “nature” scene with its butterflies…