There are two distinct languages. There is the verbal, which separates people…and there is the visual that is understood by everybody.
Yaacov Agam
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
Continuity (Transformable painting, circular)
estimate: $30,000–50,000
result: $50,000
Yaacov Agam
Strocture a Double Metamorphose
estimate: $15,000–20,000
result: $33,750
Yaacov Agam
Vibralite
estimate: $20,000–30,000
result: $18,750
Yaacov Agam
Black Hole
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $17,500
Yaacov Agam
Transformable Painting in Movement
estimate: $15,000–20,000
result: $14,400
Yaacov Agam
Black Hole
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $11,875
Yaacov Agam
carpet
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $10,000
Yaacov Agam
Mazor
estimate: $4,000–6,000
result: $10,000