Jahan Maka

Canadian (1900 - 1987)
Jahan Maka was a Canadian painter.
From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for a mixed media work attributed to Jahan Maka (1900-1987) was C$495 - paid for "Villagers" at Saskatchewan NAC in Regina on Sun, Dec 12, 2021.
ArtValue.ca has 5 auction art sale records for their mixed media results, with prices in the range of C$50 to C$500.

Jahan Maka, who was born in Lithuania in 1900, and upon immigrating to Canada in 1927 changed his name to John Thomason. Maka first worked as a miner in Sherridan, Manitoba, and in 1942 moved to Flin Flon. In 1968, he began to paint, encouraged by his godson, an art student at the University of Manitoba, who supplied him with materials and brought him to the attention of others in the art world. Though he had changed his name to John Thomason over forty years before, he signed his work with his given name, Jahan Maka. Jahan Maka continued to paint until his death in 1987, and today is one of Canada's best-known self-taught artists.

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