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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: AGNES NANOGAK GOOSE (1925-2001), ULUKHAKTOK (HOLMAN ISLAND), Blind Boy, 1975 (1975/6, #29)

AGNES NANOGAK GOOSE (1925-2001), ULUKHAKTOK (HOLMAN ISLAND)

Blind Boy, 1975 (1975/6, #29)
Printer: HARRY EGUTAK (1925-?) ULUKHAKTOK (HOLMAN ISLAND)
stonecut, 18 x 24 in (45.7 x 61 cm)
27/50
LOT 75
ESTIMATE: $800 — $1,200
PRICE REALIZED: $720.00
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A study of the fine carved details one can achieve in a stonecut, Blind Boy shows the story a story often referred to as The Blind Boy and the Loon,...
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A study of the fine carved details one can achieve in a stonecut, Blind Boy shows the story a story often referred to as The Blind Boy and the Loon, which is told in slightly differing versions across the Canadian Arctic. A young man goes blind (or is made blind by his cruel mother). Living in filth, he survives on the scraps of food brought to him by his sister. One day he is approached by a loon by the waters edge who offers to restore his sight, and after three dives his sight returns. This famous print designed by the acclaimed Holman artist Nanogak and crisply executed by Harry Egutak, beautifully illustrates this pivotal part of the story.
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Provenance

Private Collection, Michigan.

Literature

This image has been published in The Inuit Print, exh. cat., (Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1977), cat. No. 29, reproduced p. 112; Estrellita Karsh, et. al, Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art, (Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1977), pl. 9, unpaginated; Jean Blodgett, The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978), p. 134-5, reproduced p. 135; Ingo Hessel, Inuit Art: An Introduction (Vancouver: D&M, 1998), p. 61; Darlene Wight, Holman: Forty Years of Graphic Art (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2002), reproduced p. 34.
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