Artists

LEA NIKEL

Lea Nikel an abstract Israeli artist, born in 1918. She was known for her cheerful compositions consisting of rough-edged blocks of color and scribbly, calligraphic lines that together conveyed a sense of imaginative excitement and urgent sensuousness. She passed away September 24th, 2005 in Kiron, Israel. Nikel held her first solo exhibition at Chemerinsky Art Gallery in Tel Aviv and her first solo show in Paris at Galerie Colette Allendy in 1957.