Original Oil Painting by Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (1923 -2005)

Ghitta Caiserman-Roth was a Canadian painter and printmaker with an impressive body of work celebrating nature and human life. She was born in Montreal in 1923 and was a founder of the Montreal Artist School Her work is in the National Gallery of Canada and other major public galleries and museum collections. She was a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) and was the first artist to receive the Governor General Award in visual Arts, in 2000.

This oil painting features two figures one in recline and the other in deep contemplation with still life in the foreground. The image itself is 7 1/2" x 13 1/2 " approximately and is in its original gallery frame with linen liner. Condition is excellent overall with no craquelure (fine cracks in paint) or staining or paint loss or scuffs of any kind. This work is consistent with her output in late 1950's and early 1960's. Accepting offers beginning at $1,000 which is a fraction of gallery pricing for a work of this significance. See detailed bio below as well as information on my art collection for sale following the bio.

Ghitta Caiserman-Roth

born in 1923 in Montréal, Québec parents emigrated from Romania studied at the American Artists' School and the Art Students' League in New York, New York, and graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York, New York (1939-1943)

Ghitta Caiserman-Roth began her art career at the age of thirteen, when she received an honourable mention in the Annual Spring Exhibition of the Art Association of Montréal. Her painting rarely moves into the purely abstract, yet her figurative work is highly concerned with composition, light, colour and texture, often using the repetition of patterns to highlight the relationships between figurative subjects. In the early 1940s Caiserman-Roth was influenced by teacher Harry Sternberg, who encouraged her to address social concerns. This encouragement was also flamed by her experience working in war factories in Montréal during the summers, and a move to a working-class area of Halifax in 1945. At this time her imagery centred around working class life. Returning to Montréal in 1947, she and Alfred Pinsky opened the Montréal Artists School with artists Barbara Eckhart and Harold Goodwin. A trip to Mexico in 1948 exposed her to the socialist mural movement, and she began incorporating mural forms into her work, once again exploring socialist themes. In 1950 she won an O’Keefe Award for her painting, Cityscape. During the 1950s, she was preoccupied with interior scenes and still life, the window becoming a major focus in her work, symbolic at once of freedom and a kind of alienation. She continued to address the themes of family and still lifes in the 1960s, also commenting on religious/social concerns in work such as Riot (Am I My Brother’s Keeper?) (1966) and Deposition (1966). During the 1970s, her treatment of objects moved from expressionism to a more surrealist treatment, as she juxtaposed them using a free association in work like Analogy (1970) and Time Tapestry (1973). Her use of objects such as rumpled beds and empty garden furniture continued her exploration of the symbolic and sensual qualities of everyday things. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s her work has continued to dwell on the themes mentioned and a variety of others, her drawing and painting becoming increasingly abstract through an overlapping and reworking of forms, and adding printmaking techniques to her range of media. The female body is a consistent subject, often combined with textile patterns, clothing or unclothing upon the canvas. She has also, chiefly during the 1990s, revived the theme of dolls that she began in the 1970 work Analogy, this time with more specific references to death and destruction. She explains the connection between dolls and death this way: "During a long-forgotten walk along a sunlit street . . . . I see all the outdoor stairways and it’s an absolutely idyllic Fall day and from a distance I get a kind of shock. I see what looks like a terrible accident and the mood of the day is destroyed. I fearfully walk toward it and it turns out to be a whole lot of dolls scattered along the street." Having grown up with a girl named Nella, whose family were lost in the Holocaust, and who was adopted by Caiserman-Roth’s parents after her father met the girl in Lodz where he was general secretary of the Canadian Jewish Congress, the artist has used dolls frequently as images of death, sometimes incorporating them with numbers that signify, in part, concentration camp serial numbers. An exhibition of her "flung dolls" was held in Germany in 1995. Having taught at Concordia University and the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montréal, as well as briefer stays at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Caiserman-Roth is the winner of numerous awards, including the Canadian Centennial Medal, Canada Council Purchase Awards, the 1975 Purchase Prize and Best Graphic Image Award at the Ontario Society of Artists, the Ninth Annual Award for the Arts, I. J. Segal Fund, and the Living Nature 86 Prize. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, the Conseil des artistes peintres du Québec, and the Conseil québecois de l’estampe.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1998 Gallery Eclectica, Kingston, Ontario

1997 Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron

1994 Herzl Family Practice Centre **find out where from Jody

1993-92 Galerie quartier des arts, Pointe Claire, Québec

1992-91 Galerie 007, Bochum, Germany

1990 Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario

1989 Altinian Laing, Montréal, Québec

1988 L'Art français, Montréal, Québec École d'hautes études commerciales, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

1983 Restaurant Al Caretta, Montréal, Québec

1982 Dresden Galleries, Halifax, Nova Scotia

1982-81 Ghitta Caiserman-Roth: A Retrospective, 1947-1980 Concordia University Gallery, Montréal, Québec (travelling)

COLLECTIONS

Air Canada Alcan Aluminum Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario Art Gallery of Brantford, Brantford, Ontario Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Banque canadienne nationale, Montréal ,Québec Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick Bell Canada Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Québec, Québec Bobst Canada Inc., Pointe-Claire, Québec Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario Canada Packers Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Canadian Industries Limited Canadian Pacific Railways Capital Office Interior, Ottawa, Ontario C.I.L. Collection, North York, Ontario Computing Devices Canada, Nepean, Ontario Concordia University, Montréal ,Québec Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Dawson College, Montréal, Québec Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario Dolfasco, Hamilton, Ontario Dominion Steel & Foundry, Hamilton, Ontario Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta Gouvernement du Québec, La collection prêt d'oeuvres d'art, Québec Great West Life, Winnipeg, Manitoba Guaranteed Trust Habima Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel Helena Rubinstein Collection, New York, New York Heritage Foundation Collection, Ottawa, Ontario Imperial Oil Collection, Toronto, Ontario Institut Canadien de Québec, Québec, Québec Jewish Public Library, Montréal, Québec Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, Univeristy of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario Laurentian University Museum and Art Centre, Sudbury, Ontario Lethbridge Community College, Lethbridge, Alberta London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario Lyndhurst Lodge, Lyndhurst, Ontario Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited, Toronto, Ontario McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Mercantile Bank of Canada Mississauga Public Library, Mississauga, Ontario Mohawk College, Hamilton, Ontario Montefiore Club, Montréal, Québec Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick Musée de Joliette, Joliette, Québec Musée Laurier, Victoriaville, Québec Musée régional de la Côte Nord, Côte-Nord, Québec National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario New York Life Norcen Energy Resources, Ltd. Northern & Central Gas, Kingston, Ontario O.J. Firestone Collection, Ontario Heritage Foundation, Rockcliffe Park, Ontario Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario Pointe-Claire Cultural Centre, Pointe-Claire, Québec Pollack Hall, McGill University, Montréal, Québec Pratt & Whitney, Montréal, Québec Provigo, Montréal, Québec Provigo, Québec, Québec Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montréal, Québec Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Rare Books Department, McGill University, Montréal, Québec Reitman's, Montréal, Québec Smith Falls Public Library, Smith Falls, Ontario Sudbury Board of Education, Sudbury, Ontario Systèmes de fomations Provente, Inc. Thomas More Institute for Adult Education, Montréal, Québec Unitrop Management, Ottawa, Ontario University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia University of Oregon, Corvalis Collection, Eugene, Oregon University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Via Rail Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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LISTED ARTISTS INCLUDE:

Amos Cassioly Alexander Gutyrya Ana Emilia Matei André Even Andrew Plum Antonio E. Costa Ben Hietsuk Charles Bragg, David Lee Dana Hatchett, David Forrester Wilson (1873-1950) “Crashing Surf” Oil Painting David Lee, Doug Higgins Edna Hibel, Edouard Georges Mac-Avoy 1957 Abstract Edouard Pignon, Edouard Vuillard – “Place Vintimille” Etching, Famous French Artist Edward Lear – Antique Hand Coloured “Carrion Crow” Lithograph Emily Mary Bibbens Warren, Erik Nyholm, (CoBra Movement Artist) Evan Magar Ewa Stryjnik Fernando Castro Pacheco – Preeminent Listed Mexican Artist Francis Leke, Francois Paris Francoise Chaillet Frederic Marlett Bell – Smith RCA, Frieda Sohn, Gaston Rebry (Top Tier Quebec Artist) Georges Roualt – Three Heads (Les Visages) Engraving famous French Fauvist and Expressionistic Artist Gerald David Pedros Ghitta Caiserman Roth (R.C.A.) Gyula Marosan, - Listed Canadian Hungarian Artist Hargreaves Ntukwana – Famous South African Artist Collection Helen Eisen, Helga Zanders Putros Helmut Ackerman – Woodcuts of “Steppenwolf” by Herman Hesse Henry Moore – Major Canadian Artist Isidoro Ocampo – Listed Mexican artist Jacques Hurtubise, Silkscreen Print “Twiggy” Jan Zimmerman Jay Redbird, (Collection of Acrylic Indigenous Paintings on Paper in Gallery Frames) Jean Marzelle Joel Mazewich Joseph Drapell Juan Gallegos, Judy Thurston, Julio Rosado, Julio Zachrisson, Katsuyuki Nishijima Klement Olsansky (RCA) Kristina Hyde, Lazlo Rozgonyi (Famous Hungarian Artist work from 1940s) (Hoi) Lebadang (Vietnamese French Artist) Louis Dobry, (Can. Hungarian artist Collection - colourful Toronto East End + Muskoka paintings) Lucretia Johnson, Lynn Kelly, Mario Merola, Mario Reyes, Marta Hauer Mary Hecht (including artwork and original bronze and terra cotta sculptures), Maurice Garrigues Max Epstein, (Abstract Work on Plexiglass) Nicholas Krushenick (Known as the Father of Pop Art) Olivier Foss Pablo Picasso (Marina Picasso Collection of Lithographs), Pal Fried Paul Miller Percy Harland Fisher (Famous British Artist) Peter Winchell Sager Pierre Tal-Coat Rachel Ovadia Raymond Victor Catell RCA, OSA, CSPWC (1921) Rick McCarthy Rod Prouse, (Collection of more than ten (10) Oil, Watercolour paintings and silkscreen prints gallery framed) Roland Oudot Rolph Scarlett – Canadian born, famous avant-garde abstract painter – with works in Guggenheim Museum. Unique, Non Objective, expressionistic abstraction style. Saul Field – Collection of Lithographs Serge Deherian, (Collection of more than ten (10) Abstract Picasso style paintings framed and unframed) Sheldon Zuker, Shonagh Adelman, (Feminist Artist) Susan Scott Tilya Helfield, (Collection of lithographs and pastel paintings) Vera Fischer, (Collection of Impressionistic landscapes and floral works framed and unframed) Victor Colesnicenco aka Nemo Wayne Ensland William Abernathy Ogilvie (1901-1989) – Canada’s top Watercolourist William Hogarth – Antique 1782 Engraving “Shrimps” William Simpson - “Seat of War in the East” Engravings from 1856 Wynona Mulcaster, Yehuda Rodan Yuichi Idaka – Important Japanese American Photographer Yvonne McKague Housser , CM, RCA – Associated with Arthur Lismer and Lawren Harris Zsolt Nagy, Cabbagetown streetscapes and idyllic children beach scenes) Zvi Ehrman,

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