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Lot #144

Artist Allen Sapp
Title They are So Tired from Playing Hockey with Their Friends
Media acrylic on canvas
Dated 2007
Size 30 x 40 in. / 76.2 x 101.6 cm.
Frame Size 36 x 46 x 1.5 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed lower right; bears title and date on gallery label verso; framed

Reference
lot includes I Heard the Drums by Allen Sapp, published by Stoddart Publishing, 1996)

Provenance
Canada House Gallery, Banff, label verso; 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

Sold $8,190 Estimate $4,000/$6,000

Biographical Information
Allen Sapp ~ [1929-2015] Canadian RCA
see artist's website www.allensapp.com

see Cree Life - the Art of Allen Sapp, published by J. Warner, Douglas Ltd., 1977; Two Spirits Soar - The Art of Allen Sapp, The Inspiration of Allan Gonor, by W.P. Kinsella, published by Stoddart, 1990; Kiskayetum - Allen Sapp: - Retrospective, by Bob Boyer, published by MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1994; The Song Within My Heart, David Bouchard, published by Raincoast Books, 2002; Nokum is My Teacher, by David Bouchard, Red Deer Press, 2006; included in Time for Dialogue, by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, pg. 19, published by Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992; biographies in Biographical Dictionary of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by Marketa Newman, pg. 223, published by Fifth House, 1994; Westbridge, Vol. 4, pg. 4; 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

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