
Ingmars Lindbergs
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Provenance
Canada House Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 1995, the original invoice of which accompanies the lot; frame retains gallery labels verso
Raised by his maternal grandparents (his grandmother, a devout Catholic and his grandfather, an Ashinaabe shaman), Norval Morrisseau was a self-taught artist whose grandparents' religions deeply influenced his work. Many of his early compositions focus on Shamanistic themes and traditions. The bright color palette displayed in the present example is representative of Morrisseau's paintings; he used nearly fluorescent pigments and outlined his figures and animals in black, creating his signature graphic, eye-catching compositions.