Wednesday, August 27, 2008

www.NorvalMorrisseauLawsuit.com (Part II)

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Otavnik Vs Vadas SC 07-51428-00
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© 1969 Norval Morrisseau
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"The painting in question was purchased at Randy Potter Auctions. It was supplied to Mr. Potter by his consignor Mr David Voss, Mr. Voss has supplied many auction houses and fine art dealer(s) with the works' of Norval Morrisseau including Don Robinson of the Kinsman Robinson Art Gallery*. Enclosed please find a statement by Mr, Voss with respect to the matter. I have also enclosed the statements of the owners/operators of Randy Potter Auctions. These painting are all of the same timeframe, subject matter, composition, color and style since they were all from the same source (David Voss) and all purchased through the same auction house by the same artist Norval Morrisseau. I have also enclosed the sales receipts of purchases from Mr. Robinson at the auction house in question. Mr. Robinson has publicly made several differing statements on the status of these painting. He has claimed that he has kept these suspect painting himself in order to produce them if there was ever a question as to their authenticity. He has also claimed that he sold them in his gallery because he was satisfied as to their authenticity. Moreover, he has provided people with appraisals of such painting from Potter Auctions (formerly Kahn Auctions) were they (Kinsman Robinson) were satisfied with the authenticity of the paintings."
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Source: www.NorvalMorrisseauLawsuit.com
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* - Kinsman Robinson Galleries /Principal Morrisseau dealer - Representing Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007) and his artwork over the last nineteen years./
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- The paintings in this posting: "Untitled", 55"x19" ea., © 1969 Norval Morrisseau
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Anonymous said...

So it sounds like provenance of these paintings is Kahn Auction/Randy Potter - David Voss - but then WHO before that?

It is my understanding that it was not directly Norval Morrisseau himself. So we have more provenance on a number of these pieces but nothing yet that links them back to Norval himself. I have also heard that a large number of these paintings were not actually owned by David Voss but actually by another Thunder Bay 'collector' and David Voss was a middle person between this individual and the auction houses.

So more information has been shared and some points/documents raised about KRG's belief at one time that these were actually authentic paintings (perhaps there relationship with Norval over the years enlightened them more or perhaps Norval accepted these paintings but later had a change of mind about accepting them anymore...we do not know) but we still do not have provenance of these pieces back to Norval himself. There still remains no picture of Norval painting one of this style or no print of a painting of this style and no example of one of these paintings in the Art of Norval Morrisseau and so on.

Note Mr Voss does not state in his later that he received the painting directly from Norval Morrisseau. He states that he had a number of friends and work associates that lived on and worked in or around native reserves giving him access to paintings - this is not a direct link to Morrisseau to build provenance required. Norval himself has stated and elsewhere in this blog Christian Morrisseau also shared some comments on Norvals knowledge of fake Morrisseau painting and accepting it at that time. This is a fact that then means these paintings still need to tied back to Morrisseau.

KRG buying them and authenticating them means very little.

27 August, 2008 09:47

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