Lot 137
JOE FAFARD
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Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist
Private Collection, Ottawa
Literature:
Gary Michael Dault, Artist Conjures Up A More Innocent Time, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, April 28, 2007, page R17.
Note:
Executed circa 1974.
Although best known for his bronze works, Fafard began his career as a ceramicist and was already well-known as a ceramic sculptor when he began working with bronze in the early 1980s. Asked by the Globe and Mail why the artist switched mediums, Fafard cited his creation of The Pasture, a 1985 Toronto Dominion Bank commissioned work consisting of seven life-sized cows resting in a grassy area between the towers of the TD Centre. “It was when I got that big commission for downtown Toronto...Those cows are big. You couldn’t make them out of clay.”