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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: GENE BRABANT (1946-) CREE, VICTORIA, B.C., Kwag-uilth Sun (Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Style Sun Mask), Sept 1982
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: GENE BRABANT (1946-) CREE, VICTORIA, B.C., Kwag-uilth Sun (Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Style Sun Mask), Sept 1982
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GENE BRABANT (1946-) CREE, VICTORIA, B.C.

Kwag-uilth Sun (Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Style Sun Mask), Sept 1982
cedar wood and acrylic paint, 33 x 37 x 20 in (83.8 x 94 x 50.8 cm)
titled, signed and dated, "Kwag-uilth / Sun / Gene Brabant / 12/82".
LOT 136
ESTIMATE: $2,500 — $3,500
PRICE REALIZED: $2,928.00

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Gene Brabant joined the Thunderbird Park artist collective in the 1970s, expanding his work beyond Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw influences to explore various Northwest Coast styles. He focused on replicating historic techniques, such...
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Gene Brabant joined the Thunderbird Park artist collective in the 1970s, expanding his work beyond Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw influences to explore various Northwest Coast styles. He focused on replicating historic techniques, such as using marine enamel paints and articulating transformation masks. The Sun Mask type, with its central face embodying human and supernatural forms, offered limitless theatrical possibilities, and it was often hand-held or suspended on wires.


Gary Wyatt


At more than three feet in width, this mask most likely recalls those Sun Masks that would be suspended. The outward-reaching beams, carefully balanced and radiating from the central face, are designed to draw attention from all angles, making the work visually powerful even when viewed from a distance.
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Provenance

Snow Goose Gallery, Ottawa;
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Ottawa.
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