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Fisherman by Reuven Rubin- Watercolor Painting
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Fisherman by Reuven Rubin (1893-1974), watercolor on paper.
Signed lower left, Rubin in English and Reuben in Hebrew.
Dimensions with frame: 43x63 cm
Original frame included.
An Arab Fisherman occupies the central figure in this marvelous watercolor painting by Reuven Rubin. Dressed in a typical Arabic local costume painted in vivd colors, the fisherman spreads his arms to showcase the catch of fish as they still hang from the hook, while a bucket containing additional fish hangs under his arm.
Fishermen, much like olive trees and sheep, populate the work of Romanian-born Israeli artist Reuven Rubin. His biblically-inspired landscape works were produced over a six-decade career spent living between Tel Aviv, New York, and Los Angeles. Considered a pioneering figurative Israeli artist of the mid-20th century and a founder of the Eretz-Yisrael style alongside artists Nachum Gutman and Ziona Tajar, his work is often compared to that of Marc Chagall. Rubin is celebrated for his portraits and sun-bleached modernist landscapes of the 1920s and 1930s, which were exhibited at the 1952 Venice Biennale and have entered the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, and the Israel Museum.
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- Creator:Reuven Rubin (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 16.54 in (42 cm)Width: 12.6 in (32 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
- Style:Expressionist (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1940
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- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU5281235329592
Reuven Rubin
Reuven Rubin- (November 13, 1893 - October 13, 1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Rubin Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galaţi to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years.
In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik, with whom he had shared a studio in Cernăuţi. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery. Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine.
Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judea competition. He died in 1974.
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