Collectors' Corner VI

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"Untitled", © 1971 Norval Morrisseau

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Another painting from a collector who wrote the following:

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"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.

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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.

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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"

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Reference posting: Collector's Corner III

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"Let's share Norval Morrisseau's images with the World."

spiritwalker2008@gmail.com

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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", 21"x27", © 1971 Norval Morrisseau