Artist Roy Kenzie Kiyooka
Title Untitled - Two Ellipses
Media acrylic on canvas
Dated
1969
Size 31 x 29 in. / 78.7 x 73.7 cm.
Sold $22,000
Estimate $6,000 - $8,000
Notes
signed and dated lower right; unframed; surface dirt noted
Reference
Roy Kiyooka Retrospective, The Vancouver Art Gallery, label verso; see Catalogue #65 and Catalogue #64 in Roy K. Kiyooka: 25 years, 1975 for other examples of Kiyooka's iconic ellipses; 'The retrospective is hung in recessive chronological order, so that one is met first by the ellipse paintings that Kiyooka began in the early '60's. At that time, he had a studio under the Granville bridge and the elliptical form evolved from the daily experience of soaring steel underpinnings.' Lowndes, J. (1975, November 27). Roy Kiyooka: the curious mind incarnated. Vancouver Sun, B.C.
Provenance
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Roy Kenzie Kiyooka ~ [1926-1994] Canadian RCA
see
Kiyooka 25 Years by Chris Varley, published by Vancouver Art Gallery, 1975;
Roy Kiyooka, published by Artspeak Gallery and Or Gallery, 1991;
All Amazed for Roy Kiyooka, published by Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002;
A Parallax: Roy Kiyooka - Harry Kiyooka published by Herringer Kiss Gallery, 2014;
included in
The Shell Canada Collection, by Basil Shammas, pg. 27, published by Shell Oil, 1977;
Printmaking in British Columbia 1883-1983, by Nicholas Tuele, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1983;
The Artists' Mecca, by Christine Boyanoski, pg. 41, published by Art Gallery of Ontario, 1992;
exhibition list in
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts: Exhibitions and Members, 1880-1979, by Evelyn McMann, pg. 224, 1981;
biographies in
National Gallery of Canada Vol. 2 G-K, edited by Charles C. Hill, pg. 378, 1988;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 2, pg. 96, Westbridge Publishing, 2000;
Dictionary of Canadian Artists, by Colin MacDonald, Vol. 3, pg. 650