REUVEN RUBIN 1927

"Beginning of the Sheep Shearing"

Early and original Drawing from the 1927

Sepia and Black Ink Judaica Drawing

on paper (probably handmade rice paper 

with uncut edges).

Signed Reuven in Hebrew, Rubin in English and 1927

Sizes: ~ 31 X 36.5 cm. 

Dated: 1927

Condition: Paper slight browned by time.

Few small original white color spots on the paper -

probably to hide black dots in the natural rice paper.

Please see photos for details and condition, 

and feel free to inquire if in doubt.

Came from a private collection in Canada - 

See sticker of the framer on the back.

Of course there is no watermark/copyright sign on the Letter in real.

I GUARANTEE FOR THE AUTHENTICITY 

OF THIS REUVEN RUBIN DRAWING.

The beginning of the Sheep shearing is a 

commandment made from the Torah to give the 

priest the beginning of wool from the sheep's gas.

   Reuven Rubin 

Senior and Famous among Israeli Painters

 painter, born 1893, Romania, Came to Palestine in 1912.

Education

1912 Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem

1913-14 école des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris

From 1948 to 1952 was first Israeli Ministry Plenipotentiary to Rumania.

Represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1952. 

He lived in Paris, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Died in his home in Tel-Aviv on October 13, 1974.

His house became "Rubin House" Museum' where many of his 

works are shown. Reuven Rubin was among the formulators 

of the primitiveness trend in the Eretz Israel art of the 1920s, 

which, in the spirit of the Zionist revival, 

saw the East as a primal, innocent world.

Awards and Prizes

1926 Awarded the Lord Plumer Prize

1945 Honorary Doctorate of Hebrew Letters,

 Jewish Institute of Religion, New York

1964 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, 

Municipality of Tel Aviv Jaffa, Tel Aviv

1971 Awarded the "Artist of the year",

 University of Judaism, Los Angeles

1973 Israel Prize

Shipping & Handling internationally with the passe-partout 

and the back, but without the metal frame and the glass: 

$50 ( EMS Insured & Registered air mail, worldwide).

In Israel $20 Express Registered and Insured.

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