Lot 56
  • 56

Reuven Rubin

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Reuven Rubin
  • Road to Galilee (Safed)
  • signed Rubin and again in Hebrew (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 3/8 by 36 1/8 in.
  • 72 by 91.6 cm
  • Painted in 1936.
According to a photo certificate from Esther Rubin, dated NY February 15, 1982, this work dates from 1936.

Provenance

Private Collection, New York
Thence by descent

Condition

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: In generally good condition; craquelure throughout with four spots of flaking to the center sky (up to 1/2 inch in diameter), minor surface dirt. UNDER UV: Dots, dashes and larger spots of inpainting throughout, particularly to the sky, hills and foreground of the left half of canvas, accounting for approximately 10% of the canvas.
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Catalogue Note

Despite the political disturbances of the mid 1930's, Rubin painted steadily throughout the decade and produced magnificent evocations of the land. Road to Galilee is a superb example from these years:

"From the next couple of years date some of his finest landscapes, in which his interest in light and atmosphere, awakened at the beginning of the decade (1930's), is combined with compositions that are well thought-out and balanced. The description of what his eye had seen is tempered by his poetic imagination. The olive trees that to him were "the guardians of the landscape" continue to dominate the foreground, while the small figures of peasants at work do not disturb the general mood of tranquility." (Sarah Wilkinson, Reuven Rubin, New York, 1980, pg. 66)