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Arieh Lubin
Rare Early Israeli Cubist Pencil Pastel Drawing Arieh Leo Lubin 1930's Palestine

c.1930's-1940's

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Arieh (Leo) Lubin, Israeli, 1897-1980 Drawing in pencil and pastel of two seated Arab or Sephardic Jewish figures. Hand signed in Hebrew upper left. Dimensions: (Frame) H 18" x W 22.5", (Sight) H 8" x W 13. Condition: Paper is clean and slightly wavy, age toning to mat. Arieh Lubin (Hebrew: אריה לובין; 1897–1980) was an American born Israeli artist. born in the United States Arieh Lubin was born in Chicago to a family of Zionist immigrants from Russia. In 1913, he was sent by his family to Palestine, where he studied at Gymnasia Herzliya. When World War I broke out, he returned to the United States and began to study at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1915. He left to join the Jewish Brigade in World War I. After the war, he studied in Europe and returned to Israel in 1922. Lubin's work reflects contemporary trends of the 1920s. His main influences were Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse. He absorbed the Cubist influence of Andre Derain and the Purism of Le Corbusier and Amedee Ozenfant by reading "L'Esprit Nouveau", a journal he ordered from Paris. Lubin was one of the first Israeli artists to settle in the artists quarter of Safed, Israel. In a country virtually isolated form the centers of culture and information, the striving of the Eretz Israel artists of the 1920s to draw on international sources was unique. He was one of the first Israeli artists to settle in the artist’s quarter of Safed. Aryeh belonged to the first school of "Israeli" art that sprang up in the twenties (together with Reuven Rubin, Nahum Gutman, Yosef Zaritzky, Menachem Shemi, Chaim Gliksberg and others) whose members rebelled against the teachers of Bezalel in Jerusalem and made Tel Aviv the artistic center of Israel. In the twenties, many of these artists showed a tendency towards cubism and primitivism: they chose local eastern scenes as the subjects of their works and demonstrated an original "Hebrew" enthusiasm in their approach to the local scene and its inhabitants. Part of the early generation of artists in Israel, Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordecai Ardon, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati; These painters depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against the Bezalel school of Boris Schatz. During his artistic career Lubin won many prizes including the John Quincy Adams Prize for Study Abroad in 1922, the Ramat Gan Panorama Prize in 1956, the Olympic Committee Prize for Sports Subjects in 1957 and the Dizengoff Prize for Painting also in 1957. He had two one-man shows at the Tel Aviv Museum (1947 and 1968) and also participated at the Venice Biennale three times in the years 1948, 1950 and 1960 and twice at the Sao Paolo Biennale in 1953 and 1958. In 1978 Lubin was named an Honorary Citizen of the city of Tel Aviv. Lubin died in Tel Aviv in 1980. He is buried in Trumpeldor Cemetery. General Exhibition Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Building, Tel Aviv 1943 with artists: Castel, Moshe Frenkel, Itzhak Janco, Marcel Hendler, David Streichman, Yehezkel Okashi, Avshalom Atar (Aptekar), Chaim Giladi, Aharon Shemi, Menahem Stematsky, Avigdor Lubin, Arieh (Leo) General Exhibition Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Building, Tel Aviv, 1941 Artists: Shemi, Menahem Frenkel, Itzhak Castel, Moshe Atar (Aptekar), Chaim Litvinovsky, Pinchas Stematsky, Avigdor Streichman, Yehezkel Levanon, Mordechai Kossonogi, Joseph Naton, Abraham Shorr, Zvi Hendler, David Lubin, Arieh (Leo) Paldi, Israel Gliksberg, Haim Zaritsky, Yossef Baser, Robert Ziffer, Moshe Sternschuss, Moses Priver, Aaron Giladi, Aharon Krize, Yehiel Feigin, Dov Awards and recognition 1922 John Quincy Adams Prize for Study Abroad 1956 Ramat Gan Panorama Prize 1957 Olympic Committee Prize for Sports Subjects 1957 Dizengoff Prize 1978 Worthy of Tel Aviv
  • Creator:
    Arieh Lubin (1897 - 1980, American, Israeli)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1930's-1940's
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    minor wear to frame and mat commensurate with age, please see photos.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38216465562

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