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THBPaul Pletka (b. 1946) – Crazy Horse
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11944 North Tracey Road
Hayden, ID 83835
United States
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LiveJul 26, 2025
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- Lot Description
Paul Pletka (b. 1946)
Crazy Horse
acrylic on canvas
60 × 48 inches
signed upper left
VERSO
Titled
Pletka biographer Evan Maurer stated, “Pletka’s paintings are best approached along two avenues. One ethnographic, the other esoteric, with the viewer assuming, as Pletka certainly seems to, that each route is really a linked variant of a single reality. For atavism, animism, attempts at contacting the elemental forces of a mysterious universe – attitudes and activities in which the West’s arbitrary and relatively recent separation of ‘natural’ from ‘supernatural’ loom as meaningless – these features emerge as hallmarks of the ways of Native America, practices figuring prominently in Pletka’s world.”
PROVENANCE
King P. Kirchner, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Present owner, by descent
LITERATURE
Mari Sandoz, Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, University of Nebraska Press, 1992, cover, illustrated
View More InformationCondition
Surface is in excellent condition. No signs of restoration.
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