MUNGITOK KELLYPALIK (1940-2014) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
sealskin stencil, 13 x 8 in (33 x 20.3 cm)
6/30
ESTIMATE: $4,000 — $6,000
PRICE REALIZED: $5,520.00
The original drawing for the present print is reproduced in Jean Blodgett’s In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way, where the author notes that, at the time of her publication, it was “the only drawing in the Co-op’s collection for a print in the 1959 collection” [1]. In translating Mungitok’s graphite drawing to print, the printmakers culled down the flock from ten birds to four. The expression of the printed birds is considerably softer and more tonal, derived from a seamless blending of black, white, and pink inks by Lukta Qiatsuk. Equally remarkable is the stenciled blue ground, the stippled texture of which leaves uninked spots of the sheet to glint like ice crystals.
1. Jean Blodgett, In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way, 1991, p. 50. There are, of course, other 1959 print drawings in existence, for example Lot 20.
References: The image and its original drawing are reproduced in Jean Blodgett, In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking, (Kleinberg, ON: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1991), nos. 1b & 1a p. 51 & 50, respectively; Image also reproduced in Leslie Boyd Ryan, Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective, (San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2007), p.12; Christine Lalonde and Leslie Boyd Ryan, Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset 1959-2009, (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009), cat. 14, p. 29.
Provenance
Private Collection, USA;by descent to the present Private Collection, USA.
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