Rudolf Ray Rapaport

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Rudolf Ray Rapaport (April 13, 1891 – 1984-05) was a prolific expressionist painter who worked and exhibited in Austria, France, the USA, Mexico, and Britain.

Born Rudolf Rapaport in Latvia, he later used the name Rudolf Ray. He trained in Vienna, where his work was praised by Oskar Kokoschka and the city's art critics. He arrived in New York in 1942. From 1960 to 1974 he lived in Mexico.

In 1927 he married Vienna-born painter Katharina Zirner, who died in childbirth in Kathmandu later that year. Their son, Martin, died aged 17 in Vienna in 1944.

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Pollatschek, Stefan Der Maler Rudolf Rapaport : das Überwirkliche im Porträt ; eine Studie Wiener Buchund Kunstverlag, Wien, 1933
Greenberg, Clement 'The Crisis of the Easel Picture' in Art and Culture Critical Essays Beacon Press, 1961 ISBN: 0807066818
Ray, Rudolf Fragment einer Ausstellung Wiener Secession, Wien, 1970