Tuesday, August 25, 2009

NORVAL MORRISSEAU UNLIMITED

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Catalogue Raisonné For The Limited Editions
/The Scientific Blog Project/
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/Click on image to enter the project/
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About the project & Mission
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Background

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For all the original paintings and drawings, the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society (NMHS) has accepted the task (in 2005) to work on a catalogue raisonné, documenting every known work created by the artist. The large amount of - unrecorded - Norval Morrisseau’s originals will understandably lead to years of research and investigation by the NMHS.
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Documenting the original signed limited edition silkscreens/serigraphs and lithographs are not part of their mission. Therefore this project will deal with all original signed limited editions, with the mission statement as written below.
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If you own a Norval Morrisseau painting and would like to document it, contact the NMHS, contact the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society at
norvalmorrisseauheritage@gmail.com.
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If you own a piece of a Norval Morrisseau limited edition, you can
contribute in this blog research project.
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Mission Statement

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This project has the mission to document all original signed limited editions of Norval Morrisseau. Norval Morrisseau Unlimited uses an on-line blog for the following reasons:
- to stimulate owners of a piece, to contribute with factual information;
- to support the art market as soon as possible, not out waiting the finalization of the project.
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Contribute to the research!

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If you have a limited edition of Norval Morrisseau, you can help to add factual information, which are still missing in the on-line Catalogue Raisonné. Search for the edition, in which you own a piece, in the “list (so far)”, look at the information and:
- confirm (or unconfirm) the written information (the more confirmations, the more reliable the information);
- send the unknown information.
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Contribute by sending your information to
morrisseau.unlimited@gmail.com or by adding a comment (with the information) to a posting, by clicking on the posting title of your edition. It does not matter if a posting is old, you can always respond. See the on-line blog as a database, in which information will continuous be added.
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Content

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All information mentioned are factual registered by one ore more sources. For the codification of the sources and the reliability, see ‘codification’.
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The limited editions will be numbered. For the codification of the numbering, see ‘
codification‘.
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For the first year, after the launch of this project, regular there will be new posting of a known limited edition.
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Blog master’s personal note
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I am really fond of limited editions and I love the art of Norval Morrisseau. The combination is magical, to me. I discovered his art in the beginning of 2000 and it was the start of a special journey.

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During these last 9 years I followed his art and collected almost scientifically al kind of information. This was not as easy as I expected for a well known and respected Canadian artist. However all my collected information of limited editions is the basis of this project “Catalogue Raisonné for the Limited Editions’.
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I hope all owners will contribute to finalise this non-commercial project and that everyone will enjoy this site during the project.

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Warm regards,

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Frank Kortstee, 05/24/2009
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* Blog Master's comment: I would like you to know that I am in no way associated with Mr. Frank Kortstee and his NORVAL MORRISSEAU UNLIMITED blog but I do support and encourage his project! Miigwech, Spirit Walker.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dear all,

Thanks Spiritwalker for supporting my research project and posting my mission statement. So far I have collected around 160-170 Limited Editions in my database, with about 145 with image. So far 47 are posted, followed by about 2 editions a week, after checking my information sources.

I would appreciate if people send me images and information about the Morrisseau prints (see my blog), as some already did. You are welcome to join the research. You can send your contribution to morrisseau.unlimited@gmail.com.

Regards,
Frank Kortstee
Morrisseau Unlimited