{"product_id":"gershon-iskowitz-primaries-watercolor-1978","title":"GERSHON ISKOWITZ \"PRIMARIES\" WATERCOLOR, 1978","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is somewhat hard to reconcile \u003ca title=\"Toronto art gallery collection featuring iconic Canadian artist Gershon Iskowitz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/collections\/gershon-iskowitz\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGershon Iskowitz\u003c\/a\u003e's (1921-1988) joyful aesthetic with his personal history. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn to a religious family in Poland, Iskowitz was allowed to leave yeshiva (a Jewish seminary) in order to study art, including a brief stint at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The outbreak of the second world war forced him to return to his hometown where shortly after he was conscripted to forced labor. In 1944 Iskowitz was transferred to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Buchenwald Concentration Camp\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buchenwald_concentration_camp\"\u003eBuchenwald\u003c\/a\u003e, one of the first and most notorious Nazi concentration camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUpon liberation, Iskowitz spent nearly 9 months in the hospital recuperating. Amazingly he would study for six months at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich with Oskar Kokoschka. Iskowitz would eventually immigrate to Canada. For most of the 1950s, he incorporated representation into his art with an emphasis on landscape. By the 60's he had established a modest reputation in Toronto and beyond,  joining the Gallery Moos stable in 1964. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBetween 1967 and 1976, Iskowitz would receive six Canada Council grants for his work, becoming one of the era's leading abstract artists. He represented Canada at the Venice Biennial in 1972. A retrospective of his work was held in 1984 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO, travelling across Canada as well as to Canada House in London, England.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is a paradigm of Iskowitz's watercolors from the late 1970s. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMade by dropping color onto dampened paper, Iskowitz's watercolours offer distinctive colourful clusters that vibrate across the page. Iskowitz was measured in his process so that each chromatic patch came across clearly, not muddied with one another. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \"Primaries\" Iskowitz uses a starbursts of aquamarine blue, yellow with red on top, and a deep teal to create a thoughtful arrangement of pigment, shape, and process:\u003c\/span\u003e a true celebration of color and medium. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestions about this piece? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:troy@caviar20.com\"\u003eContact us,\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e call \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"tel:4167041720\"\u003e+1.416.704.1720,\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Caviar20 Toronto art gallery contact information\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/pages\/contact\" target=\"_blank\"\u003evisit our Toronto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntitled (Primaries)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCanada, 1978\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatercolor \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigned and dated by artist in pencil, lower right\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13\"H 22\"W (sheet)\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20\"H 29\"W (framed)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFramed with museum glass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe price is $4,500 CAD\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gershon Iskowitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67757405798636,"sku":"10-26","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/2712\/files\/Caviar20_Gershon-Iskowitz-Untitled-_primaries_-watercolour-1978_01.jpg?v=1792182401","url":"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/products\/gershon-iskowitz-primaries-watercolor-1978","provider":"Caviar20","version":"1.0","type":"link"}