PITSEOLAK ASHOONA, R.C.A., O.C., (1904-1983) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
Caribou and Birds, 1963 #21
Printmaker: IYOLA KINGWATSIAK (1933-2000) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
stonecut, 22 x 26.5 in (55.9 x 67.3 cm)
45/50
stonecut, 22 x 26.5 in (55.9 x 67.3 cm)
45/50
LOT 9
ESTIMATE: $800 — $1,200
PRICE REALIZED: $780.00
ESTIMATE: $800 — $1,200
PRICE REALIZED: $780.00
Pitseolak gave free rein to her sense of whimsy in creating this delightful image. There are more than caribou and birds in this totemic composition. The bottom two figures resemble...
Pitseolak gave free rein to her sense of whimsy in creating this delightful image. There are more than caribou and birds in this totemic composition. The bottom two figures resemble spirit creatures more than they do realistic animals. The print may derive from an early drawing by Pitseolak (c. 1960) and thus could be classified as “naïve,” but it does already point to the artist’s innate sense of design and composition that were so fundamental to her art.
Provenance
Private Collection, Michigan.Literature
This image by Pitseolak is illustrated in the National Museum of Man travelling exhibition catalogue The Inuit Print, (Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1977) p. 81; as well as Dorothy Eber and Pitseolak Ashoona, Pisteolak: Pictures out of my life, (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, n.d., second edition, 2003?), p. 82.; and Cape Dorset: A Decade of Eskimo Prints and Recent Sculpture, (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1967), pl. 30, unpaginatedJoin Our Mailing List
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