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Lot 168
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Gershon Iskowitz 1921 - 1988

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 CAD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gershon Iskowitz
  • Red-C

  • 1979

    signed, titled and dated ISKOWITZ 1979 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 96.5 by 83.9 cm.
  • 38 by 33 in.

Provenance

Gallery Moos, Toronto

Private Collection, Ontario

Literature

Adele Freedman, Gershon Iskowitz, Painter of Light, Toronto, 1982, p. 12

Catalogue Note

When he came to Canada in 1949, Iskowitz, a Holocaust survivor, started by painting the landscape around Toronto. Gradually, his paintings left behind the horrors of his early life and, inspired by the Canadian landscape, by new friends and other artists, became colourful, cheerful, and expansive expressions of considerable poise and power.

He has commented:

I painted what I know. I always try to get endless spaces that won't block the eye looking through, so that you wonder what is happening behind the paint.  Art is like a mystery.  Everything combines together - your social life, your painting, your friends - that's what makes it.