TIVI ETOK (1928-) KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ (GEORGE RIVER), Four Works: The Old Way of Hunting Walrus by Kayak, Why The Sea Animals Have Gone, The Traditional Way of Fishing I, and The Whale Hunt, 1976 (1975) #16, #2, #6, and #5

TIVI ETOK (1928-) KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ (GEORGE RIVER)

Four Works: The Old Way of Hunting Walrus by Kayak, Why The Sea Animals Have Gone, The Traditional Way of Fishing I, and The Whale Hunt, 1976 (1975) #16, #2, #6, and #5

The Old Way of Hunting Walrus by Kayak, 1975 #16
Printmaker: TIVI ETOK (1928-) KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ (GEORGE RIVER)
stonecut, 21.5 x 29.5 in (54.6 x 74.9 cm)
29/50

Why The Sea Animals Have Gone, 1975 #2
Printmaker: TIVI ETOK (1928-) KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ (GEORGE RIVER)
stonecut, 21.5 x 29.5 in (54.6 x 74.9 cm)
48/50

The Traditional Way of Fishing I, 1975 #6
Printmaker: TIVI ETOK (1928-) KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ (GEORGE RIVER)
stonecut, 21.5 x 29.5 in (54.6 x 74.9 cm)
2/50

The Whale Hunt, 1975 #5
Printmaker: TIVI ETOK (1928-) KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ (GEORGE RIVER)
stonecut, 21.5 x 29.5 in (54.6 x 74.9 cm)
2/50*

*The prints are noted as being of an edition of 50, but only 40 were released.

Lot 9
ESTIMATE: $300 — $500

Having been the first Inuk artist to have a dedicated portfolio and catalogue of prints, Tivi Etok closely followed his 1975 Tivi Etook: Whispering in my Ears and Mingling with...

Having been the first Inuk artist to have a dedicated portfolio and catalogue of prints, Tivi Etok closely followed his 1975 Tivi Etook: Whispering in my Ears and Mingling with my Dreams with the 1976 catalogue Tivi Etook: In The Days Long Past. This new collection of 16 prints and a T-shirt design can almost be viewed as an instructional guide to traditional ways of living and hunting in Etok’s home of Kangiqsulujjuaq. That said, these images are far from dry and textbook: these prints have life and motion to them.

In one of the forwards to the catalogue, Marybelle Myers (Mitchell) sums up one of the great joys of a graphic work by Tivi, their duality.

There is a double thread woven throughout Etook’s [sic] work – the freshness and spontaneity of one untutored in technique and the sophistication born of an unfettered and direct relation to reality. Using his art to make a universal comment on the Eskimo way, he has immediate appeal for other Eskimos.

Humourist? Realist? Etook shows us that, ultimately, they are not mutually exclusive categories. He is translating reality as he perceives it, humorous and serious, and both at once – if one has the eyes to see it and the talent to express it. 1

Ed. Marybelle Myers, Tivi Etook: In The Days Long Past, (Montreal: La Federation des cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec, 1976), p. 5.

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Ex. Coll. Colin John Grasset Molson (C.J.G ) Collection, Montreal.

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