Artist Bill Reid
Title Haida Myths #174/200
Media portfolio of photolithographic reproductions on paper
Dated
1982 -/83
Size 24.75 x 19.25 x 0.75 in. / 62.9 x 48.9 x 1.9 cm.
Sold $1,500
Estimate $2,000 - $4,000
Notes
LOT OF FIVE; signed and numbered on title page; each print is signed and dated along bottom; prints include the follow titles with corresponding image sizes: Nanatsimgit and His Wife, [9.5 x 13.75 in]; The Dogfish Woman, [13 x 11 in.]; The Bear Mother and Her Husband; [13.5 x 10 in.]; The Raven with a Broken Beak, [9.25 x 13.5 in.]; and The Eagle and the Frog, [12.5 x 12 in.]; paper; paper size measures [17.5 x 23 in.]; all unframed in plexiglass portfolio; plexiglass has some scratches and stains noted
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Bill Reid ~ [1920-1998] Canadian RCA
see
Bill Reid, by D.Shadbolt, U. of Washington Press, 1986;
The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, by Robert Bringhurst, Douglas and McIntyre 1991;
Bill Reid, the Making of an Indian, by M.Tippett, Random House, 2003
biography and other examples in
Time for Dialogue, by J.Cardinal-Schubert, pg.19, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992;
Northwest Coast Indian Graphics, by E.Hall, U. of Washington Press, 1981;
Dict. of Canadian Artists - Vol.7, by C.MacDonald, pg.1986
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]