Reuven Rubin 1893-1974

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Description

Reuven Rubin
The Big Bouquet
signed Rubin and signed in Hebrew (lower left); signed twice RUBIN, titled The Big Bouquet, dated 1963/64 and inscribed Made in Israel (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
45 1/8 by 35 in.
116 x 89 cm.

Provenance

Irving Geist, New York
Purchased by the present owner directly from the daughter of the above

Exhibited

Jerusalem, The Israel Museum and The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Rubin Retrospective Exhibition, May-June 1966, illustrated in color on the cover of the exhibition catalogue

Literature

Reuven Rubin, My Life My Art, 1969, New York, page 170, illustrated in color

Condition

There is craqulure on the vase and a faint craqulure line along the right edge from the stretcher. Surface in very good condition. No retouching apparent when examined under ultra violet light.
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Catalogue Note

"Rubin is an artist who is in love with this land, who intimately knows its winding paths and byways, who excels at painting its scenery, its fruits and flowers in his own distinctive manner... He simply loves life, enjoys whatever he sees and seeks to convey his feeling of optimism to his canvas or sheet of paper. True, he endeavours, as Raoul Dufy put it, to 'depict the beauty that is apparent to the eye,' but beauty appears differently to the eye of each artist, and is expressed in his work only through this different angle of 'seeing', which is to become 'style'. What characterizes Rubin as a person in his faculty of being happy, plain and simple, his capacity to enjoy the sight of a beautiful landscape, the colour of a flower, a friendlier chat... 'I paint,' he says, 'what I love: my people, my family, my country. To paint means to sing, and every artist must make his own voice heard.'" (Dr. Haim Gamzu, Rubin Retrospective Exhibition, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1966).