Artist Joseph [Joe] Fafard
Title Diego #6/7
Media painted bronze sculpture
Dated
2001
Size 25.25 x 19.75 x 9.75 in. / 64.1 x 50.2 x 24.8 cm.
Notes
signed, titled, dated and numbered on chair
Reference
lot includes Joe Fafard by Terrence Heath, published by Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing, 2007 and Joe Fafard: Cow and Other Luminaries 1977-1987 by Matthew Teitelbaum and Peter White, published by Mendel Art Gallery and Dunlop Art Gallery, 1987)
Provenance
from the Estate of Dr. Joan Snyder, a prominent Calgary philanthropist; proceeds from this work will help fulfill Joan's wishes to support the University of Calgary. To read more about Dr. Joan Snyder, visit the University of Calgary's Memoriam
Biographical Information
Joseph [Joe] Fafard ~ [1942-2019] Canadian
see artist's website www.joefafard.com; see A Souvenir Album of Joe Fard's Pensees, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1973; Joe Fafard, Cows and Other Luminaries 1977-1987, by M.Teitelbaum, Mendel Art Gallery, 1987; Joe Fafard, by Terrence Heath, National Gallery of Canada, 2007; Joe Fafard: Retailles, by Jennifer McRorie and Kim Houghtaling, Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, , 2016; Joe Fafard, Til the Cows Come Home, by Terrence Heath, Slate Fine Art Gallery, 2017; biographies in Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.86, Fifth House Pub., 1994; Saskatchewan: Art and Artists, by Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, pg.29; see also Visions, Contemporary Art in Canada, ed.R.Keziere, pg.128 and N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.304; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg. 108, Westbridge Pub., 1999; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website