FCA OC PNIAI RCA WS
1919 - 2016
Canadian
Thunderbird of Courage
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated 1977 and on verso titled on the Gallery Gevik labels and titled "Tribute to Courage" on the Pollock Gallery label
24 x 20 in, 61 x 50.8 cm
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CAD
Sold for: $25,000
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PROVENANCE
The Pollock Gallery Ltd., Toronto
Gallery Gevik, Toronto
Dr. Luigi Rossi
Estate of Dr. Luigi Rossi
LITERATURE
Bob Boyer and Carol Podedworny, foreword by Phillip Gevik, Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960 – 2000, 2001, page 48, reproduced page 49
Michelle LaVallee et. Al., 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc., Mackenzie Art Gallery, 2013, reproduced page 167, listed page 355
The Rossi Collection: A Circle of Friends, Kelowna Art Gallery, 2018, reproduced front cover in installation photo
EXHIBITED
Mackenzie Art Gallery, 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc., September 21, 2013 - January 12, 2014; travelling in 2014 - 2016 to Winnipeg Art Gallery; Kelowna Art Gallery; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg; Art Gallery of Windsor, catalogue #87
"I guess you could say I can identify with the Thunderbird woman, being a woman myself. I conceive of the thunderbird as a spirit of protection and guardianship. I place thunderbirds in some of my paintings to symbolically suggest the role of the guardian spirit."
-Daphne Odjig, 1978
For the biography on Dr. Luigi Rossi in PDF format, please click here.
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