Artist Robert Charles Davidson
Title Fast Bird #I/III P.P.
Media colour silkscreen on paper
Dated
2011
Size 40 x 30 in. / 101.6 x 76.2 cm.
Sold $4,250
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Notes
signed, dated, numbered and embossed chop along bottom; bears title verso; unframed
Reference
'Storyteller John Sky mentions a bird called Fast-Trout or Fast-Rainbow-Trout. Much like Bird in the Air, I was intrigued to bring this supernatural being to life in visual form'; from and also illustrated on page 189 in Echos of the Supernatural, The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson by Gary Wyatt, published by Vancouver Art Gallery, 2022
Provenance
from a private collection
Biographical Information
Robert Charles Davidson ~ [b.1946] Canadian RCA
see Robert Davidson: Haida Printmaker, by Hilary Stewart, published by Douglas and McIntyre, 1979; Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge, by Karen Duffek, published by University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, 2004; Abstract Impulse, published by Seattle Art Museum, 2013; Echoes of the Supernatural: The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson, by Gary Wyatt, published by Figure 1, 2022
included in Contemporary Canadian Art, by David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff, pg. 275, published by Hurtig, 1983; Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada, edited by Robert Bringhurst et al, pg. 155, published by Douglas and McIntyre, 1983; Printmaking in B.C. 1883-1983, by Nicholas Tuele, A.G.G.V.
biography at www.douglasreynoldsgallery.com/davidson.htm and included in www.artcyclopedia.com