KENOJUAK ASHEVAK, C.C., R.C.A. (1927-2013) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
lithograph diptych, overall: 33.25 x 46 in (84.5 x 116.8 cm), each sheet: 33.25 x 23 in (84.5 x 58.4 cm)
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ESTIMATE: $4,000 — $6,000
PRICE REALIZED: $4,148.00
John Westren eloquently captures the vivid intensity of Kenojuak's imagination during this period of her career, "The mid-1990s through 2005 would see a revitalized Kenojuak Ashevak. This period was one of the most fertile, ambitious, and prolific of her career. I don't know what influences in Kenojuak's life might have encouraged this fecundity so late in her life, but I suspect that the rejuvenated printmaking program itself played no small part…The results of seeing her work writ large and in glorious Technicolor must have had an invigorating effect on her creative process…[S]he would move into works of movement and tremendous kinetic energy and on into dynamic large-scale prints that are more like paintings [1].
1. John A. Westren, "Toward the Millennium" in Leslie Boyd Ryan, Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective (San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2007), p. 261.
References: This diptych is reproduced in Leslie Boyd Ryan, Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective (San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2007), p. 286. The 1999 diptych Silavut, Nunavut is also reproduced, p. 232. Kenojuak's special commission Nunavut (Our Land) of 1992 is reproduced in Odette Leroux et al ed., Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset (Douglas & McIntyre/Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1994), p. 111.
Provenance
Collection of John & Joyce Price, Seattle, WA.Join our mailing list
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