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Gershon Iskowitz 1921 - 1988 Canadian oil on canvas Spring Images 54 1/2 x 39 1/2 inches 138.4 x 100.3 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated 1964 Literature:Adele Freedman, Gershon Iskowitz: Painter of Light, 1982, pages 90, 95 and 100 Provenance:Gallery Moos, Toronto Private Collection, Toronto On February 26, 1960, Gershon Iskowitz had his first one-man show at Dorothy Cameron's Here and Now Gallery in Toronto. The show was a resounding success, receiving favourable reviews in the newspapers of the day. The importance of the show cannot be over-estimated, since it included paintings that showcased his gradual evolution from earlier images that depicted the atrocities of his indelible wartime experiences along with his developing, soft-edged paintings. Spring Images is an important work from 1964 as, although it is abstract, it maintains an adherence to his previous palette. It is a large canvas of transcendent qualities, and part of an entire body of work in which "recognizable images begin to disintegrate, float and move in a disembodied dance to the strains of ethereal music". The painting engulfs the viewer in a sea of muted colours that coalesce into a spatial limbo. As Cameron said of his work, "He'd taken the Canadian landscape and just turned it into something we never saw in our own landscape. He saw this lovely, soft, romantic, golden afternoon."