Harold RUBIN

1932

drawings

 

Short C.V. - Solo Shows - Group Exhibitions

Blasphemy Trial

Selected Images

Selected Reviews - Publications

Works sold on auction - Further Links

 

Harold RUBIN in 1962

 

Short C.V.

Born in Johannesburg on 13th May, 1932. Educated at Jeppe High School, Johannesburg. Studied drawing and painting with Roza van Gelderen, Douglas Portway and Herman Wald, did architectural studies at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, and the A.A. London. In 1963 he emigrated to Israel where he worked as an artist and architect. He taught life-drawing at the Bezalel Art Academy during 1979/82. In 1986 he resigned from architecture to devote all his time to his art.

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Selected Solo Shows

1961 - Solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, Whippman's Gallery, Johannesburg

1962 - Solo exhibition of drawings, Gallery 101, Johannesburg (70 works) (opened by Brother Roger Castle C.R. – 23rd July)

1969 - Solo exhibition of 29 works, Gallery 101, Johannesburg (19th May)

1979, 1981, 1986 - Solo exhibitions, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

and many more (PDF)

 

Selected Group Shows

1960 - Queens Hall Art Gallery, Johannesburg (Transvaal Artists: 22 Contemporary SA artists)

1960 - Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg (Artists of Fame & Promise), cat. 78/79

1961 - Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg (The Year's Findings Exhibition)

1962 - "Art and Religion" The Gallery 101 - U.A.T. 1962 Scholarship Exhibition - February 1962 (cat. 43)

1969 - Art-South Africa-Today, Durban (Award)

Harold RUBIN "Israel-war Life III", 1964 - drawing (Cambridge Award, Durban 1969)

 

Blasphemy Trial -  Crucified Christ

Works included in Harold Rubin's exhibition at Gallery 101, Johannesburg, during July 1962, were the subject of a Court Case - please click on the following links to find out more about this!

Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 28th July, 1962

Sunday Times, Johannesburg - 29th July, 1962

Die Transvaler, Johannesburg - 2nd August, 1962

Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 12th September, 1962

Die Vaderland, Johannesburg - 21st November, 1962

News/Check, Johannesburg - 18th January, 1963

Various reports (dates no longer available) - please request copies if needed (8 articles)

Verdict

 

Selected Images

Harold RUBIN "The Beast and the Burden Series", 1962 (The Vicious) (conté) 3'x3.5'

The Beast and the Burden - seven images

 

Other press reviews

The Star, Johannesburg - 24th July, 1962

Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 25th July, 1962

The Star, Johannesburg - 22nd May, 1969, ill.

see also:

Die Transvaler, Johannesburg - 15th September, 1962; Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 18th January, 1963

 

Selected publications

"And Uru said to the Almighty God" - 1961

South African Artists 1900-1962 (H Jeppe) (Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel), 1963, p.81

Insert to The Purple Renoster No. 9, Johannesburg (The Beast & the Burden) - 1966

ARTLOOK, Johannesburg - Vol. 34, September 1969, p. 18, ill.

The New American Review, New York, No. 10 (The Beast & the Burden) - 1971 

Art & Artists of South Africa (Berman) (Balkema), 1983, pp. 159/160 (ill.), 202, 300

„The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors including Namibia“ (Ogilvie / Graff) (Everard Read), 1988 – ISBN 0 620 12663 9 – listed on p. 572/3

Painting in South Africa (Berman) (Southern Book Publishers), 1993, p.300

Art & Artists of South Africa (Berman) (Southern Book Publishers), 1994, pp. 159/160 (ill.), 202, 300

 

Works sold on auction

Sotheby's Johannesburg - 12th May, 2003 - Lot 274

Bernardi Auctioneers, Pretoria - 6th November, 2006 - Lot 385

Bonham's London - 30th January, 2008 - Sale 15681 Lot 243

Welz / Sotheby's Johannesburg - 11th November, 2008 - Lot 214

Lot x - Russell Kaplan Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 12th March, 2011 - illustrated

 

Further Links

www.pelmama.org - do an internal search for "Rubin"!

 

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Last updated 26th August, 2012

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