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Yaacov Agam Art

Israeli, b. 1928

Influenced by his upbringing in Judaism as well as the teachings of the Bauhaus, Yaacov Agam is a pioneer of kinetic art as well as the Op art movement and is often credited with introducing geometric abstraction to his home country of Israel.

Born in Rishon LeZion, Palestine — now part of Israel — the son of a rabbi, Agam found that the spiritual world had a major influence on his art practice, as did the sand dunes he grew up watching as they constantly shifted with the wind. This perpetual movement would inform his work, whereby riveting, prismatic compositions that transform from different perspectives, patterns that generate optical effects and sculptures that move with a passing breeze all reflect the gradual changes in nature.

Agam studied with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem in the 1940s before traveling to Zurich where he trained with Swiss Expressionist painter Johannes Itten and was inspired by the abstract work of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

One of the innovative techniques Agam developed was the Agamograph, which uses lenticular printing so that multiple images, which are revealed as the viewer moves around the piece, can be seen on a single work. His art has regularly involved the spectator as a participant, whether it’s the 1972–74 room-size kinetic installation he created for the Elysée Palace that’s now in the Centre Pompidou in which a gleaming abstract sculpture is surrounded on all sides by polychromatic lines or it’s public art like the 1986 Fire and Water Fountain in Tel Aviv with circles of vibrant panels that offer varying colors from every angle.

In 2018, the Yaacov Agam Museum of Art opened in Rishon LeZion, showcasing six decades of Agam’s influential work that engages with perception through color, shape and form, from paintings, prints and installations to new experiments in interactive digital art.

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Artist: Yaacov Agam
I from Double Metamorphosis Series, OP Art Silkscreen by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - ) Title: I from Double Metamorphosis Series Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 180 Image Size: 27.5...
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1970s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

Yellow Abstraction, Agamograph by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Agamograph is Yaacov Agam’s unique contribution to the OP Art movement. The object is a print behind a lenticular surface that fools the eye to show movement and three-dimensional depth. The “Yellow Abstraction” is hand-signed and numbered in marker by the artist. Yellow Abstraction Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928) Date: circa 1980 Agamograph, signed and numbered in marker Edition of 39...
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1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Lenticular, Screen

Agam Silkscreen Mod Judaica Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art Print
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Surfside, FL
Yaacov Agam Israeli (b. 1928) Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you request. sheet: 13.5 X 13.5 inches Some of these works have beautiful Hebrew calligraphy and mod imagery, animals, children and such that are not usually found in his work. This is a masterpiece of bold, graphic, mod design. Along with Reuven Rubin and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Biographical info: The son of a rabbi, Yaacov Agam can trace his ancestry back six generations to the founder of the Chabad movement in Judaism. in 1946, he entered the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Studying with Mordecai Ardon, a former student at the Weimar Bauhaus. Yaakov Agam has been associated h with “abstract” artists, “hard edge” artists, and artists such as Josef Albers and Max Bill. Others find in Agam’s work an indebtedness to the masters of the Bauhaus. Agam’s approach to art, being conceptual in nature, has been likened to Marcel Duchamp’s, who expressed the need to put art “at the service of the spirit.” And, because of Agam’s employment of color and motion in his art, he has been compared to Alexander Calder, the artist who put sculpture into motion. (Motion is not an end, but a means for Agam. Calder’s mobiles are structures that are fixed, revolving at the whim of the wind. In a work by Agam, the viewer must intervene.) Agam has also been classified as an “op art” artist because he excels in playing with our visual sensitivities. Agam went to Zurich to study with Johannes Itten at the Kunstgewerbeschule. There, he met Frank Lloyd Wright and Siegfried Giedion, whose ideas on the element of time in art and architecture impressed him. In 1955, Galerie Denise René hosted a major group exhibition in connection with Vasarely's painting experiments with movement. in addition to art by Vasarely, it included works by Yaacov Agam, Pol Bury, Soto and Jean Tinguely, among others. Most Americans were first introduced to Vasarely by the groundbreaking exhibition, "The Responsive Eye," at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1965. Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz. The show confirmed Vasarely's international reputation as the father of Op art. Agam has sought to express his ideas in a non-static form of art. In his abstract Kinetic works, which range from paintings and graphics to sculptural installations and building facades. Agam continually seeks to explore new possibilities in form and color and to involve the viewer in all aspects of the artistic process. Thus, for the past 40 years, Yaacov Agam’s pioneering ideas have impacted developments in art, (painting, monoprint, lithograph and agamograph) architecture, theatre, and public sculpture. Reflecting both his Israeli Jewish...
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1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph, Screen

Flags
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A piece by Israeli artist Yaacov Agam, who is known for contributions to optical and kinetic art. In the painting there are flags of the USA and Israel. The artist thinks about the connections and relations of two states. Through culture, and here particularly the music, they complement each other. Five-pointed star from the American flag transforms into Six-pointed star on the Israeli flag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph

Agam Silkscreen Mod Judaica Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art Print
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Surfside, FL
Yaacov Agam Israeli (b. 1928) Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you request. sheet: 13.5 X 13.5 inches Some of these works have beautiful Hebrew calligraphy and mod imagery, animals, children and such that are not usually found in his work. This is a masterpiece of bold, graphic, mod design. Along with Reuven Rubin and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Biographical info: The son of a rabbi, Yaacov Agam can trace his ancestry back six generations to the founder of the Chabad movement in Judaism. in 1946, he entered the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Studying with Mordecai Ardon, a former student at the Weimar Bauhaus. Yaakov Agam has been associated h with “abstract” artists, “hard edge” artists, and artists such as Josef Albers and Max Bill. Others find in Agam’s work an indebtedness to the masters of the Bauhaus. Agam’s approach to art, being conceptual in nature, has been likened to Marcel Duchamp’s, who expressed the need to put art “at the service of the spirit.” And, because of Agam’s employment of color and motion in his art, he has been compared to Alexander Calder, the artist who put sculpture into motion. (Motion is not an end, but a means for Agam. Calder’s mobiles are structures that are fixed, revolving at the whim of the wind. In a work by Agam, the viewer must intervene.) Agam has also been classified as an “op art” artist because he excels in playing with our visual sensitivities. Agam went to Zurich to study with Johannes Itten at the Kunstgewerbeschule. There, he met Frank Lloyd Wright and Siegfried Giedion, whose ideas on the element of time in art and architecture impressed him. In 1955, Galerie Denise René hosted a major group exhibition in connection with Vasarely's painting experiments with movement. in addition to art by Vasarely, it included works by Yaacov Agam, Pol Bury, Soto and Jean Tinguely, among others. Most Americans were first introduced to Vasarely by the groundbreaking exhibition, "The Responsive Eye," at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1965. Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz. The show confirmed Vasarely's international reputation as the father of Op art. Agam has sought to express his ideas in a non-static form of art. In his abstract Kinetic works, which range from paintings and graphics to sculptural installations and building facades. Agam continually seeks to explore new possibilities in form and color and to involve the viewer in all aspects of the artistic process. Thus, for the past 40 years, Yaacov Agam’s pioneering ideas have impacted developments in art, (painting, monoprint, lithograph and agamograph) architecture, theatre, and public sculpture. Reflecting both his Israeli Jewish...
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1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph, Screen

UNTITLED (YELLOW)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. From the Menorah series. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 200. Certificate of Authenticity Included. Artwork in Excellent Conditi...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Paper, Screen

Yaacov Agam, Midnight Light, Kinetic work, polymorph.
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Yaacov Agam, Midnight Light, polymorph, Kinetic art, Colored work, International artist, Israeli artist, Israeli art. Yaacov Agam’s polymorph is a unique example of geometric and kin...
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Late 20th Century Kinetic Yaacov Agam Art

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Metal

UNTITLED (PURPLE)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. From the Menorah series. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 200. Certificate of Authenticity Included. Artwork in Excellent Conditi...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Paper, Screen

Color and Space, Agamograph by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - ) Title: Color and Space Medium: Agamograph, signed and numbered in ink Year: circa 2000 Edition: 99 Size: 15 in. x 14 in. (38.1 cm x 35.56 cm) F...
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Early 2000s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Lenticular

2+3 = 4
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Jerusalem, IL
3D Kinetic work by Yaacov Agam. Homage to Einstein’s Time Formula. First viewing the work in 2D from the front, the viewer is then exposed to a third dimension as he moves. Signed by...
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1980s Yaacov Agam Art

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Plexiglass, Mixed Media

2+3 = 4
2+3 = 4
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By Yaacov Agam
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Yaacov Agam Art

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C Print

Nine Squares, Abstract Geometric Op Art Agamograph by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - ) Title: Untitled - Nine Squares Medium: Agamograph, signed and numbered in ink Year: circa 2000 Edition: 99 Size: 12 x 12 in. (30.48 x 30.48 c...
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Early 2000s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Lenticular

Untitled
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Yaacov Agam Art

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C Print

UNTITLED
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yaacov, (Jacob Gipstein) (Israeli, b. 1928). UNTITLED. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 180, signed in blue pencil, and numbered 80/180. 26 3/8 x 33 1/4 inches, 669...
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Mid-20th Century Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

Infinty transparency #3
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Sliding colored acrylic plates on a turning foot; Edition of 81
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2010s Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Mixed Media, Plexiglass, Wood

UNTITLED
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yaacov, (Jacob Gipstein) (Israeli, b. 1928). UNTITLED. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 165, signed with marker, and numbered 164/165. 18 1/2 x 47 3/4 inches, 470 x...
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Mid-20th Century Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

Agamograph no. 17, Abstract Geometric Op Art Lenticular by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - ) Title: Agamograph no. 17 Medium: Agamograph, signed and numbered in ink Edition: 99 Size: 12 x 12 in. (30.48 x 30.48 cm) Frame Size: 20.5 x 2...
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Early 2000s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Lenticular

Yaacov Agam Large Silkscreen Colors on Gold Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art Print
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a large hand signed serigraph silkscreen, pencil numbered in Roman numerals. biographical info: The son of a rabbi, Agam can trace his ancestry back six generations to the f...
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20th Century Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

TIME CHANGE SUITE
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Aventura, FL
Suite of 5 serigraph prints with binder. Each serigraph is hand signed and numbered by the artist. Sheet size 26 x 6.5 inches (each). Image size approx 19.25 x 13.5 inches. Edition ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Paper, Screen

Beyond the Visible, Original Marker Drawing by Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Diagonal lines in pink, pink, orange, and black make up the composition of this original drawing by Yaacov Agam. Signed above the printed text ’Agam’. Title: Beyond the Visible Medi...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Yaacov Agam Art

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Archival Paper, Permanent Marker

V from Double Metamorphosis Series, Large Silkscreen by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - ) Title: V from Double Metamorphosis Series Year: Circa 1979 Medium: Serigraph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 26/180 Image Siz...
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1970s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

Yaacov Agam - geometric structures - 1977-79
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Yaacov Agam - geometric structures - 1977-79 Lithography Signed lower right Beautiful colours Restored Noted " A.P " in the lower left corner 69x18,5 1800€
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1970s Yaacov Agam Art

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Paper

Time from the Mobility Within Series, Agamograph by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - ) Title: Time from the Mobility Within Series Medium: Agamograph, signed and numbered in ink Edition: 99 Year: circa 2000 Size: 11 x 11.5 in. (2...
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Early 2000s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Lenticular

Yaacov Agam, Zig-Zag, Movable Kinetic chromed Steel sculpture
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Yacov agm, Zig-Zag, steel, sculpture, international artist, kinetic art, 70's, abstract sculpture, Israeli artist
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Late 20th Century Kinetic Yaacov Agam Art

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Steel

Yaacov Agam, Small EA nd, Original kinetic work, Acrylic on aluminium
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Yaacov Agam, Original work, Acrylic on aluminium, 1989, Kinetic art, kinetic work, hand-painted, Israeli afrtist, Israeli art Dimensions (no frame): Height: 22 cm (8.66 in), Width: 2...
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Late 20th Century Kinetic Yaacov Agam Art

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Acrylic

Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Yaacov Agam, Purple blue, Kinetic art, Israeli art most, Israeli art
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1970s Yaacov Agam Art

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Mixed Media

Yaacov Agam Lithograph "Tribute to Mondrian" 1975.
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Yaacov Agam Lithograph Tribute to Mondrian Number 50/100 Circa 1975 71 x 67 cms
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1970s Abstract Geometric Yaacov Agam Art

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Paper

Menorah Series 4, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - ) Title: Menorah Series 4 Year: circa 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Size: 52 in. x 1...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

Untitled
By Yaacov Agam
Located in New York, NY
Stainless steel and marble. Signed and numbered from edition of 350.
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1970s Kinetic Yaacov Agam Art

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Marble, Stainless Steel

Yaacov Agam, Untitled 1962
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Yaacov Agam, Original sculpture, kinetic art, 1960's, international artist, Israeli artist, israeli art
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Late 20th Century Kinetic Yaacov Agam Art

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Mixed Media

Yaacov Agam, Pace of Time, original work, Watercolor on paper, 1972, mini model
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Yaacov Agam, Pace of Time, Original work, gouache on paper, International artist, Israeli artist, Israeli art. This work is installed in the main entrance of the Tel Aviv museum in a...
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20th Century Kinetic Yaacov Agam Art

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Paper, Gouache

Message of Peace, Abstract Print by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam Title: Message of Peace Year: 1988 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Paper Size: 40 x 31 inches
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1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

AGM 167
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yakov. AGM 167. Screenprint, not dated. Published by Circle FIne Art. Edition of 9, numbered 3/9 and signed in white ink. 5 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches (image), In excellent condition. Framed to 24 x 42...
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1960s Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

Cercle Haut, Large Standing sculpture by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - ) Title: Cercle Haut Year: 1968/69 Medium: Unique Chrome and Steel Kinetic Sculpture Size: 85 x 35 x 2 in. (215.9 x 88.9 x 5.08 cm) Bas...
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1960s Kinetic Yaacov Agam Art

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Stainless Steel

Composition
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Agamograph - Hand Signed by Agam Edition of 99 Hand signed
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Mixed Media

Haggadah – Le Shana Haba’Ah (Next Year In Jerusalem)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
From the Haggadah of Passover, 1985 - Published by Capepark LTD., London - Printed by Aterlier Arcay in Paris Edition of 180 + A.P. 27 + H.C. 9 Signed
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Other Medium

Haggadah – Four Sons
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
From the Haggadah of Passover, 1985 - Published by Capepark LTD., London - Printed by Aterlier Arcay in Paris Edition of 180 + A.P. 27 + H.C. 9 Signed
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Other Medium

Haggadah – Hakerara (The Seder Plate)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
From the Haggadah of Passover, 1985 - Published by Capepark LTD., London - Printed by Aterlier Arcay in Paris Edition of 180 + A.P. 27 + H.C. 9 Signed
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Other Medium

Haggadah – Adir (Greatest)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
From the Haggadah of Passover, 1985 - Published by Capepark LTD., London - Printed by Aterlier Arcay in Paris Edition of 180 + A.P. 27 + H.C. 9 Signed
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Other Medium

Haggadah – Had Gadya #3 (The Little Lamb)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
From the Haggadah of Passover, 1985 - Published by Capepark LTD., London - Printed by Aterlier Arcay in Paris Edition of 180 + A.P. 27 + H.C. 9 Signed
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Other Medium

Haggadah – Had Gadya #2 (The Little Lamb)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
From the Haggadah of Passover, 1985 - Published by Capepark LTD., London - Printed by Aterlier Arcay in Paris Edition of 180 + A.P. 27 + H.C. 9 Signed
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Other Medium

Haggadah – Had Gadya #1 (The Little Lamb)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
From the Haggadah of Passover, 1985 - Published by Capepark LTD., London - Printed by Aterlier Arcay in Paris Edition of 180 + A.P. 27 + H.C. 9 Signed
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Other Medium

"Stars of Hope"
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Warren, NJ
An agamograph signed and numbered in good condition some minor frame wear and scratches international buyers must pay shipping expense
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21st Century and Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph

Square Wave
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Original Serigraph in Colors on Paper - Hand signed by the artist
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Other Medium

Spectrum
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Missouri, MO
Spectrum By. Yaacov Agam (Israeli, b. 1928) Signed Lower Right Edition 158/180 Lower Left Unframed: 27" x 33.5" Framed: 36.5" x 43" Yaacov Agam is one of the pioneer creators of the kinetic movement in art as well as its most outstanding contemporary representative. Agam was born in 1928 a son of a Rabbi of Rishon LeZion (Israel), who devoted his life to the study of Jewish religious matters and wrote books. Agam considers himself somehow as a visual continuation of his father's quest for spirituality. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, and in Switzerland at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule and the Zurich University. After arriving to Paris in 1951, Agam held his first one man exhibition with a great success in 1953 This exhibition consisted totally of kinetic, movable and transformable paintings, which actually was the first one-man show in art history exclusively devoted to kinetic art. A passionate experimenter, Agam deals with such problems as the 4th dimension, simultaneity and time in the visual, plastic arts, and has extended his experiments to application in the fields of literature, music and art theory. His works express a concept that breaks away with the established way of expressing reality in limited, static way. In his works, he strives to demonstrate the principle of reality as a continuous "becoming" rather than static "graven image." His paintings Double Metamorphosis 11 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Transparent Rhythms 11 in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. give the best example of his polymorphic painting. His works are placed in many public places including Communication x 9 on the Michigan Avenue in Chicago (1983), Communication: Night and Day at the AT&T building in New York (1974), Super Lines Volumes at the Pare Floral in Paris (1971), and his murals Peace and Life arc installed at the Parliament of Europe in Strasbourg (1977). Agam has expressed the new concepts in monumental works as in his Jacob's Ladder, which forms the ceiling of the National Convention House in Jerusalem. He created a "floating museum", including all the artworks for public areas and cabins, for the Carnival Cruise Line's luxury cruise ship "Celebration" (1987). His fire-water fountain in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv (1986) streams water, fire, and music -elements of flux and life which cannot be static - as its colored elements rotate in this multidimensional monumental work. For the Elysee Palace in Paris, with the request of President Georges Pompidou Agam created in 1972 a whole environmental of the Salon with the walls covered with polymorphic murals of changing images a kinetic ceiling, moving transparent colored doors and a kinetic carpet on which he placed a sculpture. It embraces viewers: they are no longer looking at a framed, fixed scene, but rather arc moving within an artistic space which changes constantly according to their shifting position and point of view. Similar attempt was made for the concert hall, Forum Leverkusen in Germany in 1970. Agam created many environmental sculptures, including Hundred Gates in the garden of the residence of the President of Israel in Jerusalem, 3 x 3 Interplay installed at the Julliard School of Music at the Lincoln Center and Wings of the Heart at J. F. Kennedy airport in New York. In 1984, he made a sculpture Beating Heart for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. In 1988, he created a transparent torah ark...
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20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph

Emerging
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Missouri, MO
Emerging, 1985 By. Yaacov Agam ( Israeli, b. 1928) Color Serigraph Signed Lower Right Edition 1/12 Lower Left Unframed: 25" x 31" Framed: 34" x 43" Yaacov Agam is one of the pioneer creators of the kinetic movement in art as well as its most outstanding contemporary representative. Agam was born in 1928 a son of a Rabbi of Rishon LeZion (Israel), who devoted his life to the study of Jewish religious matters and wrote books. Agam considers himself somehow as a visual continuation of his father's quest for spirituality. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, and in Switzerland at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule and the Zurich University. After arriving to Paris in 1951, Agam held his first one man exhibition with a great success in 1953 This exhibition consisted totally of kinetic, movable and transformable paintings, which actually was the first one-man show in art history exclusively devoted to kinetic art. A passionate experimenter, Agam deals with such problems as the 4th dimension, simultaneity and time in the visual, plastic arts, and has extended his experiments to application in the fields of literature, music and art theory. His works express a concept that breaks away with the established way of expressing reality in limited, static way. In his works, he strives to demonstrate the principle of reality as a continuous "becoming" rather than static "graven image." His paintings Double Metamorphosis 11 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Transparent Rhythms 11 in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. give the best example of his polymorphic painting. His works are placed in many public places including Communication x 9 on the Michigan Avenue in Chicago (1983), Communication: Night and Day at the AT&T building in New York (1974), Super Lines Volumes at the Pare Floral in Paris (1971), and his murals Peace and Life arc installed at the Parliament of Europe in Strasbourg (1977). Agam has expressed the new concepts in monumental works as in his Jacob's Ladder, which forms the ceiling of the National Convention House in Jerusalem. He created a "floating museum", including all the artworks for public areas and cabins, for the Carnival Cruise Line's luxury cruise ship "Celebration" (1987). His fire-water fountain in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv (1986) streams water, fire, and music -elements of flux and life which cannot be static - as its colored elements rotate in this multidimensional monumental work. For the Elysee Palace in Paris, with the request of President Georges Pompidou Agam created in 1972 a whole environmental of the Salon with the walls covered with polymorphic murals of changing images a kinetic ceiling, moving transparent colored doors and a kinetic carpet on which he placed a sculpture. It embraces viewers: they are no longer looking at a framed, fixed scene, but rather arc moving within an artistic space which changes constantly according to their shifting position and point of view. Similar attempt was made for the concert hall, Forum Leverkusen in Germany in 1970. Agam created many environmental sculptures, including Hundred Gates in the garden of the residence of the President of Israel in Jerusalem, 3 x 3 Interplay installed at the Julliard School of Music at the Lincoln Center and Wings of the Heart at J. F. Kennedy airport in New York. In 1984, he made a sculpture Beating Heart for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. In 1988, he created a transparent torah ark...
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20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph

Curtain
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Missouri, MO
Curtain By. Yaacov Agam (Israeli, b. 1928) Signed Lower Right Edition 221/227 Unframed: 18" x 22.5" Framed: 30.5" x 34.5" Yaacov Agam is one of the pioneer creators of the kinetic movement in art as well as its most outstanding contemporary representative. Agam was born in 1928 a son of a Rabbi of Rishon LeZion (Israel), who devoted his life to the study of Jewish religious matters and wrote books. Agam considers himself somehow as a visual continuation of his father's quest for spirituality. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, and in Switzerland at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule and the Zurich University. After arriving to Paris in 1951, Agam held his first one man exhibition with a great success in 1953 This exhibition consisted totally of kinetic, movable and transformable paintings, which actually was the first one-man show in art history exclusively devoted to kinetic art. A passionate experimenter, Agam deals with such problems as the 4th dimension, simultaneity and time in the visual, plastic arts, and has extended his experiments to application in the fields of literature, music and art theory. His works express a concept that breaks away with the established way of expressing reality in limited, static way. In his works, he strives to demonstrate the principle of reality as a continuous "becoming" rather than static "graven image." His paintings Double Metamorphosis 11 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Transparent Rhythms 11 in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. give the best example of his polymorphic painting. His works are placed in many public places including Communication x 9 on the Michigan Avenue in Chicago (1983), Communication: Night and Day at the AT&T building in New York (1974), Super Lines Volumes at the Pare Floral in Paris (1971), and his murals Peace and Life arc installed at the Parliament of Europe in Strasbourg (1977). Agam has expressed the new concepts in monumental works as in his Jacob's Ladder, which forms the ceiling of the National Convention House in Jerusalem. He created a "floating museum", including all the artworks for public areas and cabins, for the Carnival Cruise Line's luxury cruise ship "Celebration" (1987). His fire-water fountain in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv (1986) streams water, fire, and music -elements of flux and life which cannot be static - as its colored elements rotate in this multidimensional monumental work. For the Elysee Palace in Paris, with the request of President Georges Pompidou Agam created in 1972 a whole environmental of the Salon with the walls covered with polymorphic murals of changing images a kinetic ceiling, moving transparent colored doors and a kinetic carpet on which he placed a sculpture. It embraces viewers: they are no longer looking at a framed, fixed scene, but rather arc moving within an artistic space which changes constantly according to their shifting position and point of view. Similar attempt was made for the concert hall, Forum Leverkusen in Germany in 1970. Agam created many environmental sculptures, including Hundred Gates in the garden of the residence of the President of Israel in Jerusalem, 3 x 3 Interplay installed at the Julliard School of Music at the Lincoln Center and Wings of the Heart at J. F. Kennedy airport in New York. In 1984, he made a sculpture Beating Heart for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. In 1988, he created a transparent torah ark...
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20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph

Blue Rings (Abstract Composition)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Missouri, MO
Blue Rings (Abstract Composition), Serigraph By Yaacov Agam (Israeli, b. 1928) Signed Lower Right Edition 8/270 Lower Left Unframed: 21" x 21.5" Framed: 31" ...
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20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph

Abstract Purple, Blue, Greens
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Missouri, MO
Abstract Purple, Blue, Greens (Serigraph) By Yaacov Agam (Israeli, b. 1928) Signed Lower Right Edition 4/30 Lower Left Unframed: 14" x 33" Framed: 21" x 41" Yaacov Agam is one of the pioneer creators of the kinetic movement in art as well as its most outstanding contemporary representative. Agam was born in 1928 a son of a Rabbi of Rishon LeZion (Israel), who devoted his life to the study of Jewish religious matters and wrote books. Agam considers himself somehow as a visual continuation of his father's quest for spirituality. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, and in Switzerland at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule and the Zurich University. After arriving to Paris in 1951, Agam held his first one man exhibition with a great success in 1953 This exhibition consisted totally of kinetic, movable and transformable paintings, which actually was the first one-man show in art history exclusively devoted to kinetic art. A passionate experimenter, Agam deals with such problems as the 4th dimension, simultaneity and time in the visual, plastic arts, and has extended his experiments to application in the fields of literature, music and art theory. His works express a concept that breaks away with the established way of expressing reality in limited, static way. In his works, he strives to demonstrate the principle of reality as a continuous "becoming" rather than static "graven image." His paintings Double Metamorphosis 11 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Transparent Rhythms 11 in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. give the best example of his polymorphic painting. His works are placed in many public places including Communication x 9 on the Michigan Avenue in Chicago (1983), Communication: Night and Day at the AT&T building in New York (1974), Super Lines Volumes at the Pare Floral in Paris (1971), and his murals Peace and Life arc installed at the Parliament of Europe in Strasbourg (1977). Agam has expressed the new concepts in monumental works as in his Jacob's Ladder, which forms the ceiling of the National Convention House in Jerusalem. He created a "floating museum", including all the artworks for public areas and cabins, for the Carnival Cruise Line's luxury cruise ship "Celebration" (1987). His fire-water fountain in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv (1986) streams water, fire, and music -elements of flux and life which cannot be static - as its colored elements rotate in this multidimensional monumental work. For the Elysee Palace in Paris, with the request of President Georges Pompidou Agam created in 1972 a whole environmental of the Salon with the walls covered with polymorphic murals of changing images a kinetic ceiling, moving transparent colored doors and a kinetic carpet on which he placed a sculpture. It embraces viewers: they are no longer looking at a framed, fixed scene, but rather arc moving within an artistic space which changes constantly according to their shifting position and point of view. Similar attempt was made for the concert hall, Forum Leverkusen in Germany in 1970. Agam created many environmental sculptures, including Hundred Gates in the garden of the residence of the President of Israel in Jerusalem, 3 x 3 Interplay installed at the Julliard School of Music at the Lincoln Center and Wings of the Heart at J. F. Kennedy airport in New York. In 1984, he made a sculpture Beating Heart for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. In 1988, he created a transparent torah ark...
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20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph

Untitled, (Serigraph)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Missouri, MO
Untitled (Serigraph) By Yaacov Agam (Israeli, b. 1928) Signed Lower Right Edition 56/180 Lower Left Unframed: 20" x 8" Framed: 26.25" x 14" Yaacov Agam is one of the pioneer creators of the kinetic movement in art as well as its most outstanding contemporary representative. Agam was born in 1928 a son of a Rabbi of Rishon LeZion (Israel), who devoted his life to the study of Jewish religious matters and wrote books. Agam considers himself somehow as a visual continuation of his father's quest for spirituality. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, and in Switzerland at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule and the Zurich University. After arriving to Paris in 1951, Agam held his first one man exhibition with a great success in 1953 This exhibition consisted totally of kinetic, movable and transformable paintings, which actually was the first one-man show in art history exclusively devoted to kinetic art. A passionate experimenter, Agam deals with such problems as the 4th dimension, simultaneity and time in the visual, plastic arts, and has extended his experiments to application in the fields of literature, music and art theory. His works express a concept that breaks away with the established way of expressing reality in limited, static way. In his works, he strives to demonstrate the principle of reality as a continuous "becoming" rather than static "graven image." His paintings Double Metamorphosis 11 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Transparent Rhythms 11 in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. give the best example of his polymorphic painting. His works are placed in many public places including Communication x 9 on the Michigan Avenue in Chicago (1983), Communication: Night and Day at the AT&T building in New York (1974), Super Lines Volumes at the Pare Floral in Paris (1971), and his murals Peace and Life arc installed at the Parliament of Europe in Strasbourg (1977). Agam has expressed the new concepts in monumental works as in his Jacob's Ladder, which forms the ceiling of the National Convention House in Jerusalem. He created a "floating museum", including all the artworks for public areas and cabins, for the Carnival Cruise Line's luxury cruise ship "Celebration" (1987). His fire-water fountain in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv (1986) streams water, fire, and music -elements of flux and life which cannot be static - as its colored elements rotate in this multidimensional monumental work. For the Elysee Palace in Paris, with the request of President Georges Pompidou Agam created in 1972 a whole environmental of the Salon with the walls covered with polymorphic murals of changing images a kinetic ceiling...
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20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam Art

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Lithograph

Agamograph
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Jerusalem, IL
An amazing work by the famous artist Yaacov Agam, signed and numbered agmograph 17/99 , framed in a white wooden frame
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21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

Chanukiya , Judaica
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Hanukiyah, Judaica, the menorah comes apart into spirals, made of iron covered with real gold, including cups for lighting, engraved by Yaacov Agam and numbered,
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21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic Yaacov Agam Art

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Metal, Gold Leaf

Message of peace
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Hand Signed Edition of CCC
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Silk

Magic Raindrops II
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Inventory 4237 Signed
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Silk

Night-Lights Prismagraph
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Signed Edition size: 144
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20th Century Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Silk

'Color Nines', 3-D Screen Print on folded paper by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Rye, NY
This wall sculpture by Yaacov Agam is a 3D screen print on folded construction paper mounted in a plexiglass enclosure. It is # 86 in a series of 99 printed in 1984. The color palett...
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1980s Contemporary Yaacov Agam Art

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Plexiglass, Paper, Screen

Passage
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Missouri, MO
Yaacov Agam "Passage" Agamograph Ed. 19/99 Signed and Numbered Site Size: approx 12 x 16 inches Framed: approx. 24.5 x 28.5 inches An agamograph is a series of images that change a...
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Late 20th Century Modern Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

Abstract Composition - Pyramid
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Missouri, MO
Yaacov Agam "Abstract Composition" Agamograph Ed. 87/99 Signed and Numbered Site Size: approx 16 x 13 inches Framed: approx. 24.5 x 22.5 inches An agamograph is a series of images ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Yaacov Agam Art

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Screen

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