JOHNNY MEEKO SR. (1933-) SANIKILUAQ (BELCHER ISLANDS)
signed and inscribed with disc number, "JOHNNY / MEEKO . E.9.-68".
LOT 138
ESTIMATE: $1,200 — $1,800
PRICE REALIZED: $990.00
Further images
Stanley Zazelenchuk taught in Kuujjuaraapik (Great Whale River) and in Sanikiluaq for three years in the late 1960s, acquiring a fascinating and varied group of carvings in those years. Fish and Whales is one of six works by Johnny Meeko illustrated in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Zazelenchuk Collection catalogue. Like many of the works from Sanikiluaq in the collection, Fish and Whales is a charming composition that transcends the simple type of “souvenir” carving usually associated with the community.
References: For other works by the artist see Bernadette Driscoll, Belcher Islands / Sanikiluaq, (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1981), cats. 43-44. For a similar composition by fellow Sanikiluaq artist Timothy Naralik, see George Swinton, Sculpture of the Inuit, (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972), fig. 96, p. 71.
Provenance
Collection of Mr. Stanley and Mrs. Jean Zazelenchuk.Exhibitions
Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art, 11 Aug - 12 Nov 1978, cat. 71.Publications
Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art, (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978), reproduced cat. 71, p. 58.Join Our Mailing List
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