The Family
57.15 cms x 50.8 cms (22.5 ins x 22.5 ins)
Signed, titled and dated verso
printed in 1977
Lot offered for sale by Saskatchewan NAC, Regina at the auction event "Saskatchewan and Canadian Indigenous Art" held on Sun, Apr 23, 2023.
Lot 147
Lot 147
Estimate: CAD $80 - $120
Realised: CAD $88
Realised: CAD $88
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Martin Panamick was born in the M'Chigeeng First Nation, on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, in 1956. He began art making at a very young age, and in 1966 was one of the original participants in the Manitou Arts Foundation summer school on Schreiber Island, Ontario. This program by Daphne Odjig and Carl Ray to encourage young people to consider a career in the visual arts. Panamick found immediate success as an artist, and before he was twenty years old had received commercial contracts and provided illustrations for children's books. Martin died in a car accident in 1977, at just twenty-one years of age.
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.