1920 - 1998
Canadian
Haida Art (Killer Whale and Humans)
sterling silver brooch, circa 1957
signed and titled Haida Art
1 1/2 x 2 1/4 in, 3.8 x 5.7 cm
Estimate: $10,000 - $12,000 CAD
Sold for: $11,250
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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Montreal
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, February 24, 2007, lot 24
Private Collection, Vancouver
LITERATURE
Bill Reid: A Retrospective Exhibition, the Vancouver Art Gallery, 1974, curriculum vitae section
Karen Duffek, Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form, 1986, similar work entitled Raven, Wolf, Whale and Bear, circa 1960, reproduced page 39
After studying traditional European jewellery-making methods in Toronto, Bill Reid returned to Vancouver in 1951, establishing a basement workshop for his jewellery. Reid further comments, “With my return to the coast...I began to devote all my creative activities to applying the European techniques I had learned to an expanded application of the old Haida designs to jewellery. Lacking the techniques and equipment I had, the older carvers had been pretty well limited to the making of...engraved bracelets. I was able to extend this into such forms as earrings, brooches, rings, decorated boxes, etc., and to bring to all forms a three dimensional quality the older works had lacked.”
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