Arto Yuzbasiyan
(1948)
Previously Sold Works
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Cabbagetown Home, Winter
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1996 on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
View of Château Frontenac, Quebec
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed and titled on the stretcher
18 x 20 ins ( 45.7 x 50.8 cms )
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Queen Street, Toronto
watercolour
signed lower right
22 x 29.75 ins ( 55.9 x 75.6 cms ) ( sight )
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Queen Street East, Toronto
watercolour
signed lower right
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms ) ( sight )
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Queen St. East, Toronto
oil on board
signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse; titled to a gallery label on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Allen Avenue, Toronto
watercolour
signed, titled and dated 1982 lower right
13.25 x 19.75 ins ( 33.7 x 50.2 cms )
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Toronto in Winter; Vieux Québec
pair of watercolours
each signed lower right
5.5 x 7.75 ins ( 14 x 19.7 cms ) ( each sight )
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Study #5 (Toronto, Queen St. West)
oil on paperboard
signed and titled on the reverse
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Queen Street West at Beverley
oil on board
titled, dated 2005 and inscribed “Toronto” twice on the reverse; titled to a gallery label on the reverse
6 x 8 in ( 15.2 x 20.3 cm )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,100.00
Sale date: April 23rd 2024
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Lane in Cabbagetown, Toronto
oil on board
signed lower right; titled and dated 1980 on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
ARTO YUZBASIYAN
Winter Street with Streetcar
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1981 lower right
26 x 34 in ( 66 x 86.4 cm )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $5,280.00
Sale date: August 20th 2024
A. Yuzbasiyan Biography
(1948)
Arto Yuzbasiyan was born in 1948 in Istanbul, Turkey to a talented, pianist mother and a father who was a textile manufacturer. Though he did not play a musical instrument like much of his mother's family, he was interested in drawing and painting. At the age of eight, he began taking lessons from a religious painter by the name of Ojeni Telyan. He was profoundly influenced by her traditional, classical style. Later on, he studied under Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu for a brief period of time and Mustafa Pilevneli. Nonetheless, Arto claims that his main influence was Telyan's teachings.
Yuzbasiyan immigrated to Canada in 1973 to reunite with his childhood love and marry. Here, his career as an artist emerged. Quiet downtown corners where life is carried on harmoniously, with little or no effort, have become the focus of his art. The inhabitants go about their business unaware, hurrying home in a winter storm or waiting for one of Arto's ever-present streetcars to arrive.
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