Lot 144: - Gideon Rubin B. 1973 , Self Portrait oil on canvas, a diptych

each signed Gideon Rubin and dated 2001 (on the reverse) oil on canvas, a diptych

measurements each: 14 1/8 by 12 in. alternate measurements 36 by 30.5 cm.

Acquired by the present owner directly from the artist

Painted in 2001.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION IN ISRAEL
A Graduate of the School of Visual Art New York and the Slade School of Fine Art, London, Rubin has in the last six years held numerous solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, London and Tel Aviv which garnered much critical acclaim. Rubin's portraiture manages to achieve an uncanny likeness via a seemingly chaotic assault of violent brushstrokes. Very much in the vein of Francis Bacon, he manages to reveal the real inner essence of the sitter and through the texture of paint unravels a psychological and emotional portrait. The lack of facial features and the reduction of detail create a sensation of a memory fading away and show how Rubin is discovering new ways to represent emotion and memory in a painterly way.