Lot 75
GERSHON ISKOWITZ, R.C.A.
Provenance:
Gallery Moos Ltd., Toronto.
Private Collection, Toronto.
Literature:
Peter Mellen, Landmarks of Canadian Art, Toronto, 1978, page 240.
Note:
Mellan writes that recognition finally came to Iskowitz when he was asked to represent Canada in the 1972 Venice Biennale: “Viewers rejoiced in the shimmering colours.” Iskowitz drew on his experiences with landscape for his work even as his style evolved into abstraction, explaining that he would take “...the experience, out in the field, of looking up in the trees or in the sky, of looking down from the height of a helicopter. So what you try to do is make a composition of all those things, make some kind of reality...That’s painting.”