Lot 10
  • 10

Reuven Rubin

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Reuven Rubin
  • Daffodils
  • Signed Rubin and in Hebrew (lower left); signed RUBIN, signed and titled in Hebrew and dated 1937 (on the stretcher)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 29 by 21 1/2 in.
  • 73.5 by 54.5 cm
  • Painted in 1937.

Provenance

Mr. Eliezer Z. Hoofien (acquired directly from the artist circa 1940)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Rubin, Retrospective Exhibition: Forty Years of Painting in Israel, May 1955, no. 49

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from a network of stable cracquelure throughout. UNDER UV: Scattered dots and dashes of inpainting, mostly in the upper right background and along left canvas edge. Work presents nicely and is ready to hang.
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