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Tel Aviv Museum

The First Lady of Painting

When the Tel Aviv Museum did a retrospective on Lea Nikel in 1995, she was already a cultural icon. Students wrote seminar papers on her contribution to Israeli art and the growth of local abstract art; her drawings were popular, hung in countless Israeli homes, and adorned calendars.

Mira Hanan Avgar - Director of the Estate and Director of the Leah Nickel Foundation. PO Box 147 Moshav Kidron

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