Lot 27
  • 27

REUVEN RUBIN | Entrance to Safed

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Reuven Rubin
  • Entrance to Safed
  • signed Rubin and signed in Hebrew (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 21 by 26 in.
  • 53.5 by 66 cm
  • Painted in the early 1950s.

Provenance

Private Collection (Acquired directly from the artist)
Sale: Hammersite, April 6, 2012, lot 15302
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Condition

oil on canvas. surface in very good condition, unlined, stretcher is new, slight craquelure in white cloud (upper left), two lines of faint craquelure in road, and a bit in white house. Impasto thick and good, colors strong and fresh. Not examined under UV.
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Catalogue Note

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Carmela Rubin of the Rubin Museum Foundation.