ELIZABETH NUTARAALUK AULATJUT (1914-1998) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT)
Seated Woman, c. early 1970s
stone, 8.75 x 6.25 x 6.5 in (22.2 x 15.9 x 16.5 cm)
signed, "ᓄᑕᒐᓗ".
signed, "ᓄᑕᒐᓗ".
LOT 18
ESTIMATE: $3,000 — $5,000
PRICE REALIZED: $2,440.00
ESTIMATE: $3,000 — $5,000
PRICE REALIZED: $2,440.00
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The elder and matriarch Elizabeth Nutaraaluk was one of the most important Arviat artists, known for her love of family as portrayed in her moving and emotionally charged sculptures. Her...
The elder and matriarch Elizabeth Nutaraaluk was one of the most important Arviat artists, known for her love of family as portrayed in her moving and emotionally charged sculptures. Her mature works from the early 1970s are considered to be her most “beautiful”; her later sculptures became increasingly raw and primal as her strength and eyesight diminished. Simple in form she may be, but Seated Woman is a lovely and eloquent evocation of rest and contemplation, things that were probably in short supply for the busy and hardworking mother and grandmother Nutaraaluk.
References: For a strikingly similar work by Nutaraaluk see Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Kivalliq Collections, October 2007, catalogue 34. For a contemporaneous, similarly styled work by Nutaraaluk see Ingo Hessel, Inuit Art: An Introduction, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / New York: Harry Abrams / London: British Museum Press, 1998), pl. 103, p. 127. See also Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2006), cat. 39, p. 40.
References: For a strikingly similar work by Nutaraaluk see Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Kivalliq Collections, October 2007, catalogue 34. For a contemporaneous, similarly styled work by Nutaraaluk see Ingo Hessel, Inuit Art: An Introduction, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / New York: Harry Abrams / London: British Museum Press, 1998), pl. 103, p. 127. See also Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2006), cat. 39, p. 40.
Provenance
Collection of John & Joyce Price, Seattle, WA.Join Our Mailing List
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