Agam Composition

Stunning Yaakov Agam artwork! YAAKOV AGAM Yaakov Agam was born Yaakov Gipstein on 11 May 1928, in Rishon LeZion, (then Palestine).Agam trained at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, before moving to Zürich in 1949, where he studied under Johannes Itten at the Kunstgewerbe Schule He established himself as one of the leading pioneers of kinetic art at the Le Mouvement exhibition at the Galerie Denise René in 1955. He is also known for a type of print known as an “Agamograph”, which uses lenticular printing to present radically different images, depending on the angle from which it is viewed. Agam is the highest-selling Israeli artist. In a Sotheby's New York auction in 2009, when his “4 Themes Contrepoint” was sold for $326,500. He has participated in shows worldwide including many one-man exhibitions, including the retrospective exhibition held at the Musee National d'art Modeme in Paris in 1972   Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928 - )Title: CompositionYear: Circa 1980