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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: RUTH QAULLUARYUK (1932-2024) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Untitled (Colourful Vegetation), c. late 1990s
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: RUTH QAULLUARYUK (1932-2024) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Untitled (Colourful Vegetation), c. late 1990s
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: RUTH QAULLUARYUK (1932-2024) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Untitled (Colourful Vegetation), c. late 1990s

RUTH QAULLUARYUK (1932-2024) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)

Untitled (Colourful Vegetation), c. late 1990s
stroud and embroidery floss, 36 x 18.5 in (91.4 x 47 cm)
signed, "ᑲᐅᓗᐊᔪ".

LOT 69
ESTIMATE: $2,500 — $3,500
PRICE REALIZED: $4,080.00

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) RUTH QAULLUARYUK (1932-2024) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Untitled (Colourful Vegetation), c. late 1990s
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) RUTH QAULLUARYUK (1932-2024) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Untitled (Colourful Vegetation), c. late 1990s
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) RUTH QAULLUARYUK (1932-2024) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Untitled (Colourful Vegetation), c. late 1990s
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Daughter of Luke Anguhadluq (see lot 67), Ruth Qaulluaryuk relocated to Qamani’tuaq in her late teens where, in addition to drawing, she monetized her skills as seamstress making handicrafts at...
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Daughter of Luke Anguhadluq (see lot 67), Ruth Qaulluaryuk relocated to Qamani’tuaq in her late teens where, in addition to drawing, she monetized her skills as seamstress making handicrafts at the newly established craft centre. As she refined her craft, her works turned increasingly toward abstracted depictions of a familiar motif in Inuit art: the land. The present untitled wall hanging, a beautiful entanglement of texture and colour, bears witness to the dense and kaleidoscopic variety of the arctic landscape. The stolid grey ground of the present work is dramatically embroidered, almost in its entirety, in colours that are too variegated to name. In her decidedly different approach to the often seen portrayals of a more structured solemnity of the Arctic landscape,

Qaulluaryuk invented a completely new way of seeing the land around her. Her hangings can be considered rhapsodies on the theme of the Arctic landscape.

References: For a similar work, see Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum (Phoenix: Heard Museum/Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2006, p. 64. See also Darlene Coward Wight, Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art (Winnipeg Art Gallery/Douglas & McIntyre, 2012), cat. 95.
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Provenance

A Toronto Collection. 
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