Commissions
2008 Portrait work for Star Portraits documentary series
by PTV Production to be aired on Bravo TV
2008 Portrait of Mr. P. Ekstein and Mr. J. W Walker for the Canadian
Agricultural Hall of Fame
2006 Portrait of Mr. P P. Hannam for the Canadian Agricultural
Hall of Fame
2003, 2004, 2005 -OCAD Fundraiser Who done it? Donation of
a portrait commission for Art Experience live auction
2005 Portrait of Honourable Ch. Mayer, former Canadian Minister
of Agriculture, Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame
2004-2005 Official portrait of Mrs F. Parkin former Principal
Harbord Collegiate - Toronto
2004 till present Work on Copy of M. Gruenewald's Crucifixion
panel (Isenheim Altarpiece) for the Biblical Museum of Canada,
Vancouver
Maria Gabankova has been commissioned to paint many portraits
in Canada and U.S.A. Among her sitters are several renowned personalities
such as the Czech-Canadian novelists Josef ·kvoreck and
Zdena Salivarová, Czech poet Karel Kryl, Canadian pianist
Antonín Kubálek, composer Oskar Morawetz, Dr. J.
D. Corbett, principal of Knox College, professor W. Klempa, principal
of Presbyterian College, McGill University - Montreal, or NHL
hockey player Miroslav Frycer, world ice-skating champion Aja
VrzáÀová, as well as many other prominent
Canadians.
Works in private collections in Vancouver, New York, Toronto,
Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston as well as in Germany, Czechoslovakia,
France, Switzerland and Italy.