JOSIE PAMIUTU PAPIALUK (1918-1996) PUVIRNITUQ (POVUNGNITUK)
Day 20 (Many Birds), 1985
felt tip on heavy wove paper, 13 x 19.5 in (33 x 49.5 cm)
signed, "JOSIE P PAPIALOOK";
titled and dated "ᐅᓗᒐ (Day) 29 1985".
signed, "JOSIE P PAPIALOOK";
titled and dated "ᐅᓗᒐ (Day) 29 1985".
LOT 61
ESTIMATE: $400 — $600
PRICE REALIZED: $780.00
ESTIMATE: $400 — $600
PRICE REALIZED: $780.00
Marybelle Mitchell describes Papialuk's highly idiosyncratic graphic works that 'allowed him to incorporate his own experience of the environment - the winds and the sounds of every day life' (2004,...
Marybelle Mitchell describes Papialuk's highly idiosyncratic graphic works that "allowed him to incorporate his own experience of the environment - the winds and the sounds of every day life" (2004, p. 24). Here, the calls of rowdy geese are made physical with brightly coloured lines that zig and zag their chorus. All the while, concentric multicoloured bands bloat inward toward the centre of the sheet, perhaps suggestive of the Arctic breeze.
Provenance
Private Collection, Hamilton.Literature
For more information on the artist, see Marybelle Mitchell (nee Myers), "Josie Papialuk", Inuit Art: An Anthology (Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer Publishing, 1988); Marybelle Mitchell, "The Life and Time times of Josie Papialuk,” Inuit Art Quarterly (IAQ), Vol. 19, No. 1, Sprig 2004, pp. 18-23Join Our Mailing List
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