Duncan Thomson is Keeper of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. He has commissioned works for the Gallery from Arikha and has written about him for a number of journals.
In 1965, at the height of a successful career as an abstract painter in Paris and New York, Avigdor Arikha (b. 1929) suddenly stopped painting to return to drawing from life. When he returned to painting in 1973 it...
