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7681 28-Jul-2022 01:03:26 PM $1,700

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18987 27-Jul-2022 06:59:20 PM $800 AutoBid

The bidding history list updated on: Friday, March 29, 2024 09:45:44

LOT 101

BCSFA OC
1946 -
Canadian Indigenous

Halibut Halibut Halibut
colour silkscreen on paper
signed, titled, editioned P.P. I/III and dated 2001
43 x 30 1/2 in, 109.2 x 77.5 cm

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 CAD

Sold for: $2,125

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PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist by the present Private Collection, Vancouver

EXHIBITED
The Contemporary Austin, Robert Davidson: U and Eye, September 15, 2018 - March 3, 2019, same image


Celebrated internationally, Robert Davidson has devoted his life’s work to the evolution and radical re-interpretation of Haida design vocabulary. The great-grandson of legendary artist Charles Edenshaw, Davidson is considered a leading figure of the Haida cultural renaissance, and draws on historical forms both Western and Indigenous in creating a hybrid visual language.

This series of 20 silkscreen prints comes from the collection of the Vancouver-based artist who assisted Davidson in their production. Created over a decade from 2001 to 2011, these meticulous and precise works pay homage to the important tradition of printmaking in Indigenous art. They are a culmination of Davidson’s exploration of form in images woven with history and myth, and condensed to their essential graphic elements of line and colour.

Davidson’s work has been the subject of major retrospectives, including Eagle of the Dawn at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1993 and The Abstract Edge at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC in 2004, the latter of which included several original paintings on which Davidson based a number of these silkscreen prints.

The National Gallery of Canada has an edition of this print in their collection.

Please note: this work is unframed.

Please note the condition report for this work.


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