Reuven Rubin Lithograph "Rest on Flight"

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Reuven Rubin (1893 to 1974) was born Reuven Zelicovici in Galati, Romania, the eighth of thirteen children in a poor Hasidic family. In 1912 he left for Ottoman Palestine to study at the Bezalel school in Jerusalem. The school's approach disappointed him, and in 1913 he moved on to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The outbreak of World War I sent him back to Romania. After an exhibition in New York in 1921, he settled in Mandate Palestine in 1923. Rubin was part of the 1920s generation that rebelled against Bezalel's conventions and turned to modern European styles to paint the land and its people. His sunlit landscapes, biblical themes, and portraits of Yemenite Jews, Hasidim, and Arabs helped define the Eretz-Yisrael style, which perhaps owes something to Henri Rousseau. He signed his work with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters. In 1924 he held the first solo exhibition at the Tower of David in Jerusalem and was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s he designed sets for Habima, Ohel, and other theaters. He served as Israel's first envoy to Romania from 1948 to 1950, published his autobiography, My Life, My Art, in 1969, and received the Israel Prize in 1973. The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is not in the canonical Gospels. It grew out of apocryphal tradition, especially the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, and became a favorite subject in European painting from the late Middle Ages onward. The Madonna of Humility, in which Mary sits on the ground instead of on a throne, was a related devotional type that spread from fourteenth-century Italy. Rubin drops the courtly trappings of these traditions and places the family among the olive trees and grazing animals of his own landscape, in line with his habit of setting biblical scenes in the land where they took place. SHIPPING: We coordinate worldwide shipping in-house through specialist international forwarders experienced with fine art and antiquities customs manifests. International buyers must confirm, prior to bidding, that their country's customs authority will accept the item. All duties, taxes, clearance fees, and any costs arising from customs delays, seizures, re-export, returns, or loss in transit are the buyer's sole responsibility. Artemis assumes no liability for items refused entry, detained, or lost after export. We cannot ship ancient items to their country of origin (Egyptian to Egypt, Greek to Greece, etc.).For those not using LiveAuctioneers' Live Ship program, Artemis Fine Arts offers expert in-house packing and worldwide shipping. With over 20 years of experience, our team provides careful, reliable, and affordable service. For a quick quote on this lot, please contact support@artemisfinearts.com prior to the auction, or call 720-890-7700. PAYMENT EXCEPTION: For clients not previously established with Artemis, payment for all gold, precious metal, and gemstone lots must be made by bank wire transfer or certified bank check/money order, without exception. Item #205318

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