UNIDENTIFIED HAIDA ARTIST
unsigned.
ESTIMATE: $10,000 — $15,000
PRICE REALIZED: $9,760.00
Further images
This large platter displays a highly idiosyncratic design style that differs from older, more traditional images. The elements themselves are of classic form but lack the connectivity that is so characteristic of most historic period design work. For example, the formline elements above and between the eyes are beautifully formed and composed in a well-integrated design pattern, but they exhibit no formline connection to the eye structures. The eyes have been formed into elaborated ovoids but are not connecting to the mouth/nose structure. The body and limbs of the centre figure appear connected to the mouth and nose, and the feet are overlapped by the pair of elaborated ovoid designs that balance with those of the head.
Steven C. Brown
References: See the chapter on argillite plates and platters in Leslie Drew and Douglas Wilson, Argillite: Art of the Haida (Vancouver: Hancock House, 1980), pp. 200-209. See also the chapter on Haida-style platters and plates in Peter L. Macnair and Alan J. Hoover, The Magic Leaves: A History of Haida Argillite Carving (Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 1984/2002), pp. 94-99.
Provenance
With Sotheby's, New York, 29 November, Lot 185;
Walker's Auctions, Ottawa, c. 1992-95;
By repute: Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Ottawa.
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