Lot 71
JOSEPH SÁNCHEZ (b. 1948)
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Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist;
Private collection, Ontario
Note:
Sánchez, while an integral member of the PNIAI, was also deeply involved in the arts scene of New Mexico and Arizona as an artist, activist and organiser. Leaving Manitoba, Sánchez returned to the United States in February 1975 under President Gerald Ford's amnesty program. He would travel back and forth to visit his Canadian wife, Ann Krajeck, until she joined him in Arizona in 1978. As such, Self Portrait with Maiz, drawn in 1976, shows elements of Sánchez’s new home, as well as elements of his Pueblo and Apache heritage, the latter exemplified by the use of figural motifs found in Apache basketry.