Vendu pour : 61 250 $

PROVENANCE
Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Marjorie M. Halpin, Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image, UBC Museum of Anthropology, 1986, page 26

Jack Shadbolt’s fascination with First Nations art began in the 1930s, when he drew native artifacts in the British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria and sketched on the reserve land of the Cowichan people. These images recurred throughout his oeuvre, and between 1982 and 1986, Shadbolt produced a powerful body of work focused on West Coast First Nations art that was showcased in a 1986 exhibition at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. Shadbolt was inspired by native artists’ deep identification with the objects they created, and he revealed, “I found myself in complete sympathy with the Kwakiutl psychologically transformational decorative inventiveness on the one hand and with the moody monumentality of the Haida sculpture on the other and, in addition, something of the demonic ferocity of the occasional Tlingit mask…Their imprint is on my mind.” In Coast Indian, Shadbolt deconstructs his subject into a free and inventive association of ovoid forms and motifs taken from totems or masks. Liberated through his modernist aesthetic, these elements tumble through abstract space, but still radiate the spirit of their source.

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