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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: MANU KANARJUAQ QAUNNAALUK (1929-D?) IVUJIVIK, Seated Woman and Child, c. 1958
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: MANU KANARJUAQ QAUNNAALUK (1929-D?) IVUJIVIK, Seated Woman and Child, c. 1958
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: MANU KANARJUAQ QAUNNAALUK (1929-D?) IVUJIVIK, Seated Woman and Child, c. 1958
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: MANU KANARJUAQ QAUNNAALUK (1929-D?) IVUJIVIK, Seated Woman and Child, c. 1958
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    MANU KANARJUAQ QAUNNAALUK (1929-D?) IVUJIVIK

    Seated Woman and Child, c. 1958
    stone, 8 x 6 x 5.5 in (20.3 x 15.2 x 14 cm)
    inscribed with disc number, "E.9. 986".

    LOT 5
    ESTIMATE: $3,000 — $5,000

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, POSSIBLY IGLOOLIK, Reclining Sea Goddess, mid 1960s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, POSSIBLY IGLOOLIK, Reclining Sea Goddess, mid 1960s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, POSSIBLY IGLOOLIK, Reclining Sea Goddess, mid 1960s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, POSSIBLY IGLOOLIK, Reclining Sea Goddess, mid 1960s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, POSSIBLY IGLOOLIK, Reclining Sea Goddess, mid 1960s
    • Seated Woman and Child
    Inuit began trading carvings into the tiny settlement of Ivujivik on the tip of the Ungava Peninsula c. 1953. What little art was created there was clearly influenced by the...
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    Inuit began trading carvings into the tiny settlement of Ivujivik on the tip of the Ungava Peninsula c. 1953. What little art was created there was clearly influenced by the style of nearby Salluit. We know of only one other work by this female artist, a quite similar carving illustrated in Swinton’s 1972 Sculpture of the Inuit (fig. 403). Seated Woman and Child strikes us as more sophisticated than that example. The carving is strikingly beautiful; the sculptural form is simple yet truly elegant, and the heads of the mother and child are exceptionally sensitive. The sculpture is as lovely as any fine carving from Salluit; in fact it shares some of the finer aspects of one of the masterpieces in this auction, Lucassie Usaitaijuk’s Mother and Child (Lot 25).


    Literature: For a very similar work by the artist see George Swinton, Sculpture of the Inuit, (Toronto: M&S, 1972/92), fig. 403.

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    Provenance

    An Ottawa Private Collection.
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