Lot 59
  • 59

Reuven Rubin 1893-1974

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Description

  • Reuven Rubin
  • Bringing in the Wheat
  • signed Rubin and signed again in Hebrew (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 3/4 by 21 3/8 in.
  • 65.5 by 54.5 cm.
  • Painted in 1944.

Provenance

Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, June 22, 1983, lot 54, illustrated

Condition

Canvas not lined. Scattered craquelure, more pronounced in the whites in the background; the surface is very soiled. Under UV light: no apparent inpainting.
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Catalogue Note

This work is accompanied by a photocertificate from Esther Rubin, dated March 13, 1983.