"CUBIST RABBI" is Absolutely Fantastic! This is an Authentic Signed and Dated, Very Early Ari Roussimoff Oil on Canvas Painting, measuring a large-sized 24 x 36 inches. Began in 1970, at the begining of the artist's cubist period, "CUBIST RABBI" was completed a few years later during 1974. This is a hypnotic composition, which depicts a Holy Rabbi during the morning prayers (Shachris), draped in the traditional Prayer Shawl (Tallis) and Phylacteries (Tefillin). Roussimoff has successfully created a work which is both highly reverential of its esteemed subject, and at the same time serves as a boldly outstanding modernist vision. The forms are abstracted in such an individualistic way, as to render the figure as an actual animated life-force. There is so much life here. A very, very unusual interpretation of a religious Jewish theme. So un-like the sentamentalized pictures often being passed-off as depictions of Jewish life. This is a genuinely powerful work of modern Judaica Art! This hypnotic work represents one of the artist's earliest forays into Cubism. During the 1970's the artist created an incredible series of cubist-influenced paintings, this work being one of the very best early ones. This is a Work that will surely add much Life to any Room and Collection. A Real Jewel!

"CUBIST RABBI"

Oil on Canvas by Ari Roussimoff