Sunday, December 14, 2008

Letters to the Blog Master (Part I)

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Norval Morrisseau 1979
/Click on image to enlage/
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Spirit Walker, in addition to the issue of the signature and whether or not Norval Morrisseau signed, dated and titled his paintings in black on the back and the issue of likelihood that one collector could have found and bought in north west Ontario the thousand or more paintings Potter has sold since early 2000, there is the question of composition.
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The experts* allege that the "Randy Potter" paintings are too childlike or simple to be a real Morrisseau and that authentic ones are nearly always more complex with more detail. That is why they say you never see a "simple" Morrisseau in any of the expert books published about him.
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While I appreciate this is very much a secondary issue to that of the signature and the improbability of one collector amassing over a thousand "Potter Paintings", I found the attached photo ironically on the Kinsman Robinson* website and it appears to show Morrisseau painting one of his so called "simple" compositions which is strikingly similar to many of the "Potter Paintings", three of which I own.
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Norval Morrisseau Collector
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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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- Blog Master is thanking a collector for the submission of a photograph of Norval Morrisseau presented herein with respects to his decision to remain anonymous.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Norval Morrisseau painted in many styles and colours over the course of his carreer as an artist. He was a flexible man who showed ingenius execution of composition and colour pallete correspondence in all of his works of art. His use of the colour wheel became a 'fingerprint' to his particular style of Woodland Art in the 1970's as he began to incorporate and explore the use of bringing more colour to his pieces. Reds, blues and yellows belong where they are in harmony and balance through out the painting. Not too much red nor too much blue but just the right amount and the painting vibrates for you, he must have thought. Here we have Norval Morrisseau photographed at work over a completed painting in 1979. The style,colour and composition of the piece on the table is typical of the magnificent paintings he executed in the decade of the 1970's. Which have become favoured pieces of high collectibility among people around the world looking at Norval Morrisseau as an artist to supercede the popularity of other well known artists of this day and age. Those who have pieces from the 1970's are proudly holding onto their treasures now and rightly so for Norval Morrisseau to birth his way into international artistic stardom.
I proclaim Norval Morrisseau as such a Star and his light continues to grow brighter each passing day.

"Thank you spritwalker and Kinsman Robinson Galleries for providing proof that Norval Morrisseau painted in this '1970's style' all the hundreds of paintings that one was able to purchase at Randy Potter's Auction"

14 December, 2008 09:57

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