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As the one in "Joseph Accused", this detail of the protagonist in "Joseph in the Pit", 1971, is a self-portrait and suggests an autobiographical aspect in addition to the more problematic history of the Jewish People symbolized by the Biblical one.
Paired with "Jacob in Mourning", both 103"x78", it is hangs in the lobby of the New York Public Theatre from November 1974 through October 1977 and illustrates Rappaport's work being credited in the Portuguese Wikipedia article "Pintura nos Estados Unidos", surveying 'Painting in the United States' from colonial times to the present, as a good example of the persistence of expressive figurative painting during its phase of ostracism and its recuperation in the mid-1970s.1
But his two paintings hanging at The Public Theatre is a fluke - scraps inadvertently falling from Si Newhouse's table where the artist meets Joseph Papp. Their being ignored for three years demonstrates the blinders worn by the artworld.
1, http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintura_nos_Estados_Unidos
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