SIGNED, Vassilis Vassilikos, To Fyllo, 1961, First Edition, Roy Moyer

Roy Moyer (1921-2007): Groomed from childhood for a life as a concert pianist, Moyer is essentially self-taught as a visual artist. He received his academic degrees from Columbia University and, following military service during WW II, studied at the University of Oslo. From 1947 until 1950 Moyer lived in Salonica, Greece, where his first exhibition was held. A thematic traditionalist, Moyer paints still lives, landscapes, and figures with a reductive sense of form, and emphasizes the rhythmic contours rather than details of his subjects.