Chief Joseph
38.74 cms x 30.48 cms (15.25 ins x 12 ins)
Signed lower right, artist's chop lower left, titled lower centre, unframed
Lot offered for sale by Saskatchewan NAC, Regina at the auction event "Works from the Briercrest Collection of Canadian Art" held on Sat, Apr 7, 2018.
Lot 63
Lot 63
Estimate: CAD $500 - $800
Realised: CAD $354
Realised: CAD $354
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
From the Briercrest College Art Collection. 100% of the hammer price goes to the Briercrest College Scholarship Fund. This artwork has a 1998 certificate of appraisal with a fair market evaluation of $1200.
Notes:
Carl Beam R.C.A. (1943 - 2005), born Carl Edward Migwans. Carl Beam was born in 1943, in M'Chigeeng First Nation, in Ontario. From the age of ten he was sent to Garnier Residential School, in Ontario, until he left as a young man. In the mid-1980s, Beam began working with new techniques for incorporating photo-imagery into his work, utilizing a heat transfer technique learned from fellow artist Ann Beam. He also began working with photo emulsion and mixed media on paper and on canvas., often juxtaposing imagery from the spiritual, natural, and political worlds, and incorporating his own poetic inscriptions. "My works are like little puzzles, interesting little games. I play a game of dreaming ourselves as each other. In this we find out that we're all basically human." A major retrospective of his work was mounted by the National Gallery of Canada in 2010, recognizing Beam as one of the country's most important artists. He worked in various photographic mediums, mixed media, oil, works on paper, Plexiglas, sculpture, ceramics, and found objects, and etching, lithography, and screen processes.
From the Briercrest College Art Collection. 100% of the hammer price goes to the Briercrest College Scholarship Fund. This artwork has a 1998 certificate of appraisal with a fair market evaluation of $1200.
Notes:
Carl Beam R.C.A. (1943 - 2005), born Carl Edward Migwans. Carl Beam was born in 1943, in M'Chigeeng First Nation, in Ontario. From the age of ten he was sent to Garnier Residential School, in Ontario, until he left as a young man. In the mid-1980s, Beam began working with new techniques for incorporating photo-imagery into his work, utilizing a heat transfer technique learned from fellow artist Ann Beam. He also began working with photo emulsion and mixed media on paper and on canvas., often juxtaposing imagery from the spiritual, natural, and political worlds, and incorporating his own poetic inscriptions. "My works are like little puzzles, interesting little games. I play a game of dreaming ourselves as each other. In this we find out that we're all basically human." A major retrospective of his work was mounted by the National Gallery of Canada in 2010, recognizing Beam as one of the country's most important artists. He worked in various photographic mediums, mixed media, oil, works on paper, Plexiglas, sculpture, ceramics, and found objects, and etching, lithography, and screen processes.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.