Totem
128.3 cms x 12.7 cms x 10.16 cms (50.5 ins x 5 ins x 50.5 ins)
Signed and dated 1984
sculpted in 1984
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "November Live Auction 2016, Toronto Live auction" held on Wed, Nov 23, 2016.
Lot 216
Lot 216
Estimate: CAD $25,000 - $35,000
Realised: CAD $53,100
Realised: CAD $53,100
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Fletcher Challenge, Canada
Peter and Joanne Brown Collection, Vancouver
Literature:
Ian M. Thom, Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2009, page 46
Notes:
Born in Old Massett on Haida Gwaii, Jim Hart is one of the Northwest Coast's most accomplished sculptors. Hart is a chief of the Haida Nation; and his great-great-grandfather was the renowned carver Charles Edenshaw. At 24, Hart assisted Robert Davidson with totem poles for the Edenshaw Memorial, and from 1980 to 1984 he worked with Bill Reid on Reid's large-scale projects. Hart's Respect to Bill Reid Pole is part of the outdoor Haida village at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. Among his many well-known projects are Haida House in the Canadian Museum of Civilization's Grand Hall, which he supervised, and several Haida longhouses he constructed in Old Massett. His powerful large sculpture The Three Watchmen stands in front of the National Gallery of Canada.
In Hart's work lies a bridge between Haida tradition and the contemporary world. "I tell younger people all the answers are in the old pieces," he stated, but he also moves forward to create his own style. This stunning totem, its surface gleaming with gold, contains the traditional iconography of the Haida, but Hart's sleek and sinuous lines transform their visual language and bring it into the present.
Fletcher Challenge, Canada
Peter and Joanne Brown Collection, Vancouver
Literature:
Ian M. Thom, Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2009, page 46
Notes:
Born in Old Massett on Haida Gwaii, Jim Hart is one of the Northwest Coast's most accomplished sculptors. Hart is a chief of the Haida Nation; and his great-great-grandfather was the renowned carver Charles Edenshaw. At 24, Hart assisted Robert Davidson with totem poles for the Edenshaw Memorial, and from 1980 to 1984 he worked with Bill Reid on Reid's large-scale projects. Hart's Respect to Bill Reid Pole is part of the outdoor Haida village at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. Among his many well-known projects are Haida House in the Canadian Museum of Civilization's Grand Hall, which he supervised, and several Haida longhouses he constructed in Old Massett. His powerful large sculpture The Three Watchmen stands in front of the National Gallery of Canada.
In Hart's work lies a bridge between Haida tradition and the contemporary world. "I tell younger people all the answers are in the old pieces," he stated, but he also moves forward to create his own style. This stunning totem, its surface gleaming with gold, contains the traditional iconography of the Haida, but Hart's sleek and sinuous lines transform their visual language and bring it into the present.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.