# Daphne Odjig artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:57:47.920Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Movements: Woodland Style, Pictographic style
- Common media: Painting, Serigraphy

## Portrait

![Daphne Odjig](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Daphne_Odjig_2008.JPG)
Misterlobat · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daphne_Odjig_2008.JPG

## About Daphne Odjig

Daphne Odjig (1919–2016) was a Canadian artist of Odawa, Potawatomi, and English heritage. Authority records identify her as an artist, painter, and serigrapher. Published biographical summaries commonly associate her paintings with Woodland Style and a pictographic visual language, placing her work within the broader history of modern Indigenous art in Canada. Her documented practice includes both painting and serigraphy, so collectors may encounter unique painted works as well as works produced through a printmaking process. The flowing, image-led qualities associated with her published classifications can help distinguish the relevant artistic context, but they should not be treated as proof of authorship on their own. Stable records from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress help connect variant catalog references to the same artist entity. The available source pack is strongest on identity and broad artistic classification and is more limited on individual works and chronology.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter Daphne Odjig's work as paintings or serigraphs. Her paintings are commonly discussed in relation to Woodland Style and a pictographic visual language. The source pack does not establish a reliable list of recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, substrates, or production periods, so individual works should be described from direct inspection and supporting documentation rather than assumed from the artist's broader classification.

## Market and appraisal context

Auction and appraisal research for Daphne Odjig may involve paintings and serigraphs, but the collected source pack does not provide inspectable lot-level results. A defensible assessment should first confirm that the artist attribution matches established authority records and identify the work's medium and technique. Public auction comparisons, when available, should be limited to genuinely comparable works and interpreted with their sale dates and realized prices. This research set does not establish condition, provenance, dimensions, edition information, rarity, or price trends, so it cannot support a value prediction for a specific object. Those work-specific facts require separate examination and documentary evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile's identity evidence is stronger than its currently collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5221627
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/67517242/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500127270
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90664143
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Odjig
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Odjig
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Odjig
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/daphne-odjig/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daphne_Odjig_2008.JPG