Kim Jarand
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Lot 35W
A Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith painting, "Site: Acoma"
24 April 2025, 11:00 PDT
Los AngelesUS$200,000 - US$300,000
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Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
Salish/French-Cree/Shoshone, (1940-2025), "Site: Acoma," mixed media on canvas, signed and titled verso.
height 64in, width 48in
height 64in, width 48in
Footnotes
Provenance
Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
A Private Arizona Collection, acquired from the above February 1984
Per the collector's notes, the gallery documented this work as an Oil/Collage
"(Jaune Quick-To-See) Smith is an innovator who developed a signature style that remains relevant to multiple audiences in the United States, internationally, and within Indigenous circles. Her work embraces the joy of CoBrA, an avant-garde postwar art movement from Northern Europe best known for its childlike imagery and primary colors. She also turned to the bricolage style of Robert Rauschenberg and the dissent and independence of urban artist Jean-Michel Basquiat to develop her own iconic work. Smith combined these influences with familiar Native imagery such as buffalo, canoes, men's war shirts and traditional women's dresses. The resulting pieces are intricately layered, forthcoming, and groundbreaking."
Ahlberg Yohe, Jill and Greeves, Teri, editors, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, 2019, Minneapolis Institute of Art, p.291
