Yaacov Agam b. 1928
Born Yaacov Gipstein in 1928 in Rishon L'Zion, Palestine (now Israel), Yaacov Agam’s father was a rabbi and spiritual Kabbalist. He recalls being an inquisitive child, his first real experience with the arts was reading Irving Stone’s novel on Van Gogh, Lust for Life at the age of twelve. Agam embarked on his artistic studies in Jerusalem at the Bezalel Academy. He would later travel to Switzerland to study under the renowned color theorist Johannes Itten at Zürich’s Kunstgewerbe Schule. In 1951, Agam went to Paris and enrolled the Atelier d'art abstrait and at the Académie de la grande chaumière.
Auction Results Yaacov Agam
Yaacov Agam
Untitled
estimate: $400–600
Yaacov Agam
Triple Galaxy
estimate: $400–600
result: $438
Yaacov Agam
Triple Galaxy
estimate: $400–600
result: $313
Yaacov Agam
Untitled
estimate: $400–500
result: $313
Yaacov Agam
Untitled
estimate: $600–800
result: $625
Yaacov Agam
Beating Heart
estimate: $700–900
result: $2,750