“Mirel Bercovici, a Westbeth painter who once sat in the Philharmonic orchestra pit during rehearsals to capture the image and spirit of Leonard Bernstein, died Sunday at home two weeks after her 93rd birthday. … In July 2002, she had a one-woman show of her work at the Westbeth Gallery on Bethune St. and at the same time was represented in a group show of women artists at the Pen & Brush Gallery on E. 10th St. … The 2002 Westbeth show covered her life as an artist with about 150 paintings ranging from works she did as a prodigy when she lived with her mother in Paris to paintings executed at age 84.”
–Albert Amateau, the Villager, Dec. 29, 2010
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