Artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Title Tide
Media mixed media on paper
Dated
2010
Size 40 x 26 in. / 101.6 x 66 cm.
Frame Size 46.5 x 32.25 x 2 in.
Sold $5,500
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Notes
signed lower right; dated '2010.12.5'centre right; titled and dated '2011' on gallery label verso; framed; some minor stains on frame noted
Provenance
Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton/Vancouver, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas ~ [b.1954] Canadian
Yahgulanaas became a full-time artist after many decades working as part of the Haida Nation's successful campaign to protect its biocultural diversity. In the late 1990s, after exposure to Chinese brush techniques and under the tutelage of Cantonese master Cai Ben Kwon, he consciously began to merge Haida and Asian artistic influences into his self-taught practice, and created the art form called "Haida Manga.".
For more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at Michael Yahgulanaas; see article and further examples at Nuvo Magazine; see Red: A Haida Manga, by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver, 2009; 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 at Artists in Canada