Alan RAPHAEL

1939 - 1983

Sculptures in polyester resin and wood

Alan RAPHAEL in 1972

Short C.V.

Alan RAPHAEL is the artist’s name of Dr. Alan Raphael Goldin; born in 1939, a scholar at Roosevelt High School, Johannesburg, qualified from the University of the Witwatersrand’s Medical School in 1962. After further training in Durban he joined as specialist staff at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, in 1972. He was Visiting Fellow at Stanford University in 1974 which also enabled him to pursue his interests in polyester resin sculpture. After returning to Cape Town in March 1975, he emigrated to Australia in 1978, living first in Adelaide, then Sydney, where he died suddenly in 1983. He is survived by his wife Barbara Goldin - Borbereki and children.

Selected Solo Shows

1972 Gallery 101, Hollard Street, Johannesburg - 16^th March (22 works) – see invitation card + catalogue

1973 Galerie Entremonde, Paris - 29^th May to 19^th June

1975 Galerie Entremonde, Paris (7th to 28th March)

1975 Alwin Gallery, Grafton Street, London W1 - 12^th November to 5^th December

Selected Group Shows

1972 Gallery 21, Hyde Park, Johannesburg (“Selection ‘72”) – 7^th October, ill cat p16

1973 SA Association of Arts Gallery (Homes Trust), Cape Town (together with Barbara Borbereki) – 5^th February

1973 NICRO Art Dealer’s Fair, Milner Park, Johannesburg – represented by Gallery 21 on 8^th August, 1973 (The Wave - cat. 22)

1973 Gallery 21, Hyde Park, Johannesburg (“Collectors’ Choice: Autumn 1973”) – 19^th April

1974 Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto CA, U.S.A. - Alan Raphael (sculptures) jointly with Joseph Kriss (paintings)

Selected Images

Sculpture in polyester resin by Alan Raphael, San Francisco CA, 1974

"Countdown" by Alan Raphael - view from Bloubergstrand onto Cape Town, 1973

"Wave II." polyester resin sculpture by Alan Raphael

"Flow", 1974 - polyester resin by Alan Raphael

Other Selected Images

Alan Raphael polyester resin sculpture in the Kati Linda Collection

Alan Raphael polyester resin sculpture in yellow

Alan Raphael “Earthview” – suspended polyester resin mobile sculpture - illustrated in ARTLOOK 94

Alan Raphael "Mother and Child", 1972, in polyester resin

Alan Raphael – polyester sculpture illustrated in “Selection ‘72” catalogue on p16 (image © Melvyn Penn)

Selected Sculptures in wood

"Woman of the Dunes", 1973 in Rooi Els

"King and Queen" in yellow wood

"Genesis I", 1971 - Yellow wood and polyester resin

Selected Publications

ARTLOOK 64, Johannesburg – March 1972, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 32/33, ill

ARTLOOK 94, Johannesburg – April 1975, Vol. 8 No. 2, p. 15/17, ill

“Art & Artists of South Africa” (Berman) (Balkema), p. 526 (listed under “Professional exhibitors”) - ISBN 0 86961 144 5

In Memoriam – SA Medical Journal, Vol. 64, 19^th November, 1983, p. 879

Selected Press reviews

The Star, Johannesburg – 21^st March, 1972

SA Financial Gazette, Johannesburg – 14^th April, 1972

SA Arts Calendar, SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - July 1976, Vol. 1 No. 6, p.9 - two sculptures by Alan Raphael, with sodalite sculpture by Zoltan Borbereki and paintings by Barbara Goldin-Borbereki exhibited in Cape Town previously.

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