Joyner’s Canadian Art Auction

May 27, 2011

LOT 145

Lot 145

GERSHON ISKOWITZ

GERSHON ISKOWITZ
Lot 145 Details
GERSHON ISKOWITZ

SEASONS #7

oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated 1975 on the reverse
50 ins x 46 ins; 125 cms x 115 cms

Estimate $30,000-$40,000

Realised: $35,400
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

Joyner Fine Art Inc., Toronto, November 25th, 1994, lot 47.
Private Collection, Ontario.

Literature:

David Burnett, Iskowitz, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1982, page 37, cat. no.83, illustrated in colour, for a similar canvas entitled Seasons No.6, 1974.
Adele Freedman, Gershon Iskowitz: Painter of Light, Toronto/Vancouver, 1982, pages 116 and 132 for a discussion of the Seasons paintings.

Note:

Freedman writes that in the artist’s Seasons series of 1975, “...he fused the best elements of the preceding two years - colour and space - and dramatized the tension between them.”

CONDITION DETAILS

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