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Current bid: $2,250 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

22431 28-Jul-2022 01:59:29 PM $2,250

818882 28-Jul-2022 01:58:07 PM $2,000

22431 28-Jul-2022 01:57:14 PM $1,900

818882 28-Jul-2022 01:53:44 PM $1,800

22431 28-Jul-2022 01:39:30 PM $1,700

20423 28-Jul-2022 12:52:33 PM $1,600

14098 27-Jul-2022 11:30:47 PM $1,500 AutoBid

824090 27-Jul-2022 11:30:47 PM $1,400 AutoBid

14098 27-Jul-2022 11:30:46 PM $1,300 AutoBid

824090 27-Jul-2022 09:06:21 PM $1,200 AutoBid

22431 27-Jul-2022 04:36:27 PM $1,100

847272 27-Jul-2022 11:54:14 AM $1,000

824090 26-Jul-2022 06:49:24 PM $900

22431 20-Jul-2022 01:02:03 PM $800

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, March 28, 2024 07:57:34

LOT 111

BCSFA OC
1946 -
Canadian Indigenous

Chief of the Underworld
colour silkscreen on paper
signed, titled, editioned II/III P.P., dated 2006 and stamped with the printer's blindstamp
40 x 30 in, 101.6 x 76.2 cm

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

Sold for: $2,813

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


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.


All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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