Otto Donald Rogers

Canadian (1935 - 2019)

Otto Donald Rogers was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Otto Donald Rogers's estimated art value is C$10,000 (*)

Otto Donald Rogers's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$5,000 - C$50,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an acrylic painting work attributed to Otto Donald Rogers (1935-2019) was C$29,500 - paid for "Light Dispelling Darkness" at Heffel in Vancouver on Thu, Sep 29, 2016.
ArtValue.ca has 85 auction art sale records for their acrylic painting results, with prices in the range of C$5,000 to C$50,000.

Waddington's Auction House Biography and Notes

Painter and sculptor Otto Donald Rogers is one of Canada's foremost contemporary practitioners of Color Field and cubist-constructivism. Extensive use of darker palette sets him apart from other Canadian abstract painters of the time, and levy a sense of meditation and gravity to his works. Well known for his spiritualist approach to abstraction, earlier work retained a connection with landscape traditions. In Balance and First Rays of Light, we can see how his use of light and colour creates an interior unity within the canvas. This scene retains a legibility rooted in the natural world: a heavy grey sky meets a softer sand-coloured field, while thin triangular lozenges on the edges, perhaps slopes of land, frame the suggestion of a coast or haze of horizon. A lone green scrap of a figure commands attention at the center of the image, while at the lower edge of the canvas reveals a discarded, half-buried grey shape with a thin suggestion of a shadow; the scene is rooted in a feeling of ruined, discarded stillness. A diagonal bisection of the lower half of the work seems to suggest some dynamism occurring out of frame: entrance of the first rays of a grey dawn, perhaps, or the still-soaked shadow of a retreating tide. Rogers demonstrates the commanding and refined use of composition and tone that demonstrates his continued prominence in Canadian abstraction.

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