Sunday, July 13, 2008

Collectors' Corner III

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"Untitled", © 1971 Norval Morrisseau
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I would like to once again invite of the collectors of Norval Morrisseau art to send images of their paintings to be posted in the "Collectors' Corner". It will be providing space for collectors to exhibit their art and for others to post their opinions about art being presented herein.
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All of the paintings or selection of the paintings from each individual that submit their paintings will be posted in this category.
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Conditions are that images need to be high resolution and images of the front and back sides need to be submitted with inclusion of title, size, inscription and date if available.
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If you feel that you would like to preserve your identity you can always use fictitious e-mail address(s) at Hotmail, Yahoo or Google and send the images that way.
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"Let's share Norval Morrisseau's images with the World."
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Note: If you include more images than just a single one please note images in order of importance that I can post the most important image(s) first.
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Spirit Walker
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* Blog Master is thanking a collector for the submission of an image of the original painting by Norval Morrisseau and respects his/her decision to remain anonymous: "Untitled", 22"x28", © 1971 Norval Morrisseau
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your July 13th blog posted a painting I recognized from early 1970 days. It was sold at a showing at the Kenrecia Hotel in Kenora, Ontario, with another 30+ paintings that Norval had done while in the Kenora jail. He was in jail on a charge related to family support. I supplied some of the art material he used, as did the warden of the jail. I remember the painting because of the controversy it raised about being a hippopotamus or bear. The bear won because of the claws. There were also some lovely ptarmigan (northern grouse) paintings that I liked, but these were snapped up before I could buy one. Norval later painted some for me. Keep up the good work SW.
Robert Lavack
Prague,Czech Republic

16 July, 2008 08:57
Anonymous said...

Hi Robert, Adam G here,
actually the painting here may be similar,but absolutly not the same, and certainly not authentic.
I remember you from Jacob's place, too bad we lost touch after I relocated to BC.
greetings to all.

Adam from Red Lake.

17 July, 2008 17:13
Spirit Walker said...

Hi Adam, I am sorry to dissapoint you but this painting is proven to be authentic as per provenance statement of the owner:

“These paintings were bought directly from Norval Morrisseau in 1971. We were living in Kenora, Ontario at that time. Until this meeting we had never met him but had heard much about this colorful artist from our friend Robert Lavack (at that time a consultant with the Ontario Department of Education and who has recently coauthored the book “The Morrisseau Papers”). Robert had become a very good friend of Norval Morrisseau and had been pushing for his work to become recognized. In fact he had furnished him with the art materials that Norval used to do the paintings we were able to choose from.

How the purchase of our paintings came about was this: Some friend advised us that Norval Morrisseau had just been released from the Kenora jail where he had been incarcerated as a result of a drunk and disorderly charge and was at the hotel Kenrecia with a number of paintings he had done during his jail time. And that he was interested in selling these paintings.

I was away at the time but my wife went to see him. She remembers him as a perfect gentleman and they had a friendly chat. Out of the numerous paintings he showed her she picked fourteen, six of which we have after all these years and are the paintings in these pictures”

More paintings from the same collection soon to follow...

Meegwetch, Spirit Walker

18 July, 2008 01:05
Anonymous said...

Hello Adam,
My old memory must be slipping. I can't place an Adam G. or Jacob's place. Please jolt my memory. I know who bought the bear painting because she also bought some ptarmigan paintings I really liked. She must have presented the bear painting for comment to test the waters after following the Morrisseau blogs and reading about the 'fake' paintings. I will contact the owner to check her reaction as we have kept in contact over the years.
Robert Lavack

18 July, 2008 10:42

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