Sonny Assu

Canadian (1975)

Sonny Assu is a Canadian painter.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an acrylic painting work attributed to Sonny Assu (1975) was C$10,625 - paid for "Nuff Said!" at Heffel in Vancouver on Tue, Jun 15, 2021.
ArtValue.ca has 3 auction art sale records for their acrylic painting results, with prices in the range of C$10,000 to C$25,000.

Nuff Said! (2018)
acrylic, chalk paint and collage on boar...
Dimensions - 172.7 cms x 111.8 cms (68 ins x 44 ins)

Lot for sale by Heffel Auction House, Vancouver
Lot# h003
Tue, Jun 15, 2021

Estimate $8,000 - $10,000
Sold for CAD $10,625

Sonny Assu (Ligwilda’xw of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) currently lives and works in unceded Ligwilda'xw territory (Campbell River). He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations Art in 2011, and has been thrice long-listed for the Sobey Art Award. He received his MFA from Concordia University in 2017 and was one of the laureates for the 2017 REVEAL—Indigenous Art Awards. His work has been collected by numerous institutions, including the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, among others.

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