Rubins J. Spaans, Chupa Chups, 2023, Oil on Linen Canvas

This large figurative oil painting is a reinterpretation of two equestrian portrait paintings by John Vanderbank, A young gentleman riding a schooled horse, 1729 / Man on horseback, 1728. A unique oil painting on the finest quality unprimed Belgium linen canvas.

Title, year, medium and size:
Chupa Chups, 2023, oil, acrylic, oil stick, charcoal, pencil and spray paint on linen canvas, 220 x 180 cm (After John Vanderbank, A young gentleman riding a schooled horse, 1729 / Man on horseback, 1728)

The painting is signed on the reverse.

Due to its large size, this painting will be shipped rolled to minimize shipping costs. The painting is shipped rolled up in a tube without stretcher bars. This method is especially safe for large works. Rolled works can be easily stretched (for canvas works, i.e. placed onto wooden stretcher bars) and/or framed by a local framer upon arrival.

The painting is by Dutch contemporary artist and art teacher Rubins J. Spaans. His artworks are held in numerous private, corporate and public collections.

Rubins’s paintings evoke nostalgia for classical, romantic scenes and periods, an art that is about imagination, history and emotion. His paintings represent his ongoing research into the different ways of applying and understanding painting. They are reinterpretations of paintings and drawings by the Old Masters and of European painters from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Rubins lives and works in Alp, a small mountain village in the Spanish Pyrenees.

He is classically trained in the techniques of the Old Masters, and yet he has remained the street painter he was at the beginning of his painting career in Barcelona. The painting is by Dutch contemporary artist and art teacher Rubins J. Spaans. His artworks are held in numerous private, corporate and public collections.
The painting is signed on the front and signed and dated on the reverse.
Due to its large size, this painting will be shipped rolled to minimize shipping costs. The painting is shipped rolled up without stretcher bars. This method is especially safe for large works. Rolled works can be easily stretched (for canvas works, i.e. placed onto wooden stretcher bars) and/or framed by a local framer upon arrival.
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Rubins’s paintings evoke nostalgia for classical, romantic scenes and periods, an art that is about imagination, history and emotion. His paintings represent his ongoing research into the different ways of applying and understanding painting. They are reinterpretations of paintings and drawings by the Old Masters and of European painters from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Rubins lives and works in Alp, a small mountain village in the Spanish Pyrenees.
He is classically trained in the techniques of the Old Masters, and yet he has remained the street painter he was at the beginning of his painting career in Barcelona.