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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: NORVAL MORRISSEAU, C.M. (1931-2007) ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE), Imagery Mock-up, 1981
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: NORVAL MORRISSEAU, C.M. (1931-2007) ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE), Imagery Mock-up, 1981
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: NORVAL MORRISSEAU, C.M. (1931-2007) ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE), Imagery Mock-up, 1981
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NORVAL MORRISSEAU, C.M. (1931-2007) ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE)

Imagery Mock-up, 1981
acrylic on canvas, 25.25 x 27.5 in (64.1 x 69.8 cm), framed
signed, "ᐅᓴᐊ·ᐱᑯᐱᓀᓯ";
inscribed in blue ink in an unknown hand to the horizontal stretcher, "#2";
inscribed in black ink in an unknown hand to the stretcher bars, "7";
titled and dated in typeset to the gallery label, "Imagery Mock-up, 1981."

LOT 84
ESTIMATE: $8,000 — $12,000
PRICE REALIZED: $7,200.00

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) NORVAL MORRISSEAU, C.M. (1931-2007) ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE), Imagery Mock-up, 1981
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) NORVAL MORRISSEAU, C.M. (1931-2007) ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE), Imagery Mock-up, 1981
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) NORVAL MORRISSEAU, C.M. (1931-2007) ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE), Imagery Mock-up, 1981
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) NORVAL MORRISSEAU, C.M. (1931-2007) ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE), Imagery Mock-up, 1981
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Imagery Mock-up was executed at the end of Morrisseau’s professional relationship with the Pollock Gallery and just as preparations were being made for the landmark Art Gallery of Ontario show,...
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Imagery Mock-up was executed at the end of Morrisseau’s professional relationship with the Pollock Gallery and just as preparations were being made for the landmark Art Gallery of Ontario show, Norval Morrisseau and the Emergence of the Image Makers, which lauded Morrisseau as the trailblazing “imaginative genius” whose visual vocabulary gave rise to a group of First Nations artists that would come to be regarded as the “Woodland School.” It was also in this period that Morrisseau began to visually intertwine traditional Anishinaabe symbols with Eckankar philosophical concepts; the latter of which is represented here in the glowing, yellow eye, with its luminous orange iris and dilated pupil that seems to vibrate on the face of the entranced man.


References: For additional information on Morrisseau’s life and art see: Greg A. Hill, et al, Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist, exh. cat., (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2006); Armand Garnet Ruffo, Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2014), and Carmen L. Robertson, Norval Morrisseau: His Life and Work, (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2016).
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Provenance

Nexus Gallery, Toronto, their label verso;
Private Collection, Toronto.
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