Wolf Morrisseau on Norval Morrisseau Signing BDPs
Channel: Hoax Buster
Date: 2015-02-02

Wolf Morrisseau explains how he - sometime in the early 1970s - told Norval to start signing his English name on the back so that people who didn't understand syllabic signature on the front would reconginze him from the signature on the back. For thousands of paintings during the 1970s and early 1980s Norval signed paintings with his name, title, date, and copyright symbol in black drybrush paint - I call BDPs.