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.

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
Estimate CAD$6,000-$8,000