SHEOUAK PETAULASSIE (1918-1961) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
stonecut, 19.75 x 26.75 in (50.2 x 67.9 cm), framed, sight.
43/50
LOT 16
ESTIMATE: $2,000 — $3,000
PRICE REALIZED: $1,650.00
"Reflected images are sometimes believed to be innua, or the spirit of man, the animal, or the land. The many changes in the position of the foxes suggests that these are not ordinary reflections, but a rare view into the world beneathe the earth."
Sheouak created some lovely print images and an extraordinary body of imaginative drawings before her untimely death in 1961. She also designed the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative logo that is still used today. Like so much of Sheouak’s work, Reflections in My Mind is enigmatic and dream-like.
In each half of this beautiful, dreamy image, the compositions are not reflected, as the title suggests. Rather, the forms are echoed in the other, as if to suggest dual representations of similar realities. In his 1967 publication, Eskimo Prints, James Houston writes, "Reflected images are sometimes believed to be innua, or the spirit of man, the animal, or the land. The many changes in the position of the foxes suggests that these are not ordinary reflections, but a rare view into the world beneath the earth" (p. 54).
Sheouak created some lovely print images and an extraordinary body of imaginative drawings before her untimely death in 1961. She also designed the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative logo that is still used today.
References: Image reproduced in James A. Houston, Eskimo Prints, (Barre, MA, USA: Barre Publishers, 1967), p. 54-5 and in The Inuit Print, (Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1977), cat. 15.
Provenance
Private Collection, Santa Fe, NM.Join Our Mailing List
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