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.

Place Absentee Bid Share Share

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
Nationally and internationally acclaimed artist, Joe Fafard, was born September 2, 1942 to French-Canadian parents in the small agricultural community of Ste. Marthe, Saskatchewan and passed away peacefully at home on his farm near Lumsden on March 16th, 2019. Joe attended the University of Manitoba (BFA 1966) and Pennsylvania State University (MFA 1968). He was at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina from 1968–1974 and visiting lecturer at the University of California at Davis in 1980-1981. During his lifetime, Joe Fafard was a distinguished full-time artist and sculptor who lived his entire life on the Canadian Prairie; for more biographical information and examples of his work see artist's website at www.joefafard.com
see A Souvenir Album of Joe Fafard's Pensees, published by Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1973; Joe Fafard, Cows and Other Luminaries 1977-1987, by Matthew Teitelbaum, published by Mendel Art Gallery, 1987; Joe Fafard: The Bronze Years published by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1996; Joe Fafard, by Terrence Heath, published by National Gallery of Canada, 2007; Joe Fafard: Retailles, by Jennifer McRorie and Kim Houghtaling, published by Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, 2016; Joe Fafard, 'Til the Cows Come Home, by Terrence Heath, Slate Fine Art Gallery, 2017; included in Visions, Contemporary Art in Canada, edited by Russell Keziere, pg. 128, 1984; National Gallery of Canada Vol. 1 A-F, edited by Charles C. Hill, pg. 304, 1988; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 1, pg. 108, published by Westbridge, 1999; biographies in Saskatchewan: Art and Artists, by Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, pg. 29, 1971; Biographical Dictionary Of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by Marketa Newman, pg. 86, published by Fifth House, 1994; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]