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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SIMON POV (1917-1964) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1959
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SIMON POV (1917-1964) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1959
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SIMON POV (1917-1964) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1959
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SIMON POV (1917-1964) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1959
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: SIMON POV (1917-1964) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1959

    SIMON POV (1917-1964) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON)

    Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1959
    stone, 3 x 2.75 x 2.5 in (7.6 x 7 x 6.3 cm)
    signed and inscribed with disc number, "SIMON E9 1704".

    LOT 4
    ESTIMATE: $1,800 — $2,800
    PRICE REALIZED: $3,360.00

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) TUMIRA ASHOONA (1943-) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Inukshoo, 1964 (1964/5 #81)
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) TUMIRA ASHOONA (1943-) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Inukshoo, 1964 (1964/5 #81)
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) TUMIRA ASHOONA (1943-) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Inukshoo, 1964 (1964/5 #81)
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) TUMIRA ASHOONA (1943-) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Inukshoo, 1964 (1964/5 #81)
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) TUMIRA ASHOONA (1943-) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Inukshoo, 1964 (1964/5 #81)
    • Portrait of a Young Woman
    Simon POV was not a prolific artist, but his works are carved with obvious care and true sensitivity. In our opinion his female portrait heads are his most compelling and...
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    Simon POV was not a prolific artist, but his works are carved with obvious care and true sensitivity. In our opinion his female portrait heads are his most compelling and beautiful works. We know of two larger examples: one from c. 1957 originally in the Robertson Collection; and a second from 1959 (see references). This smaller version, sensitively carved from a luscious dark green stone and lovingly polished, is strikingly beautiful and close in style to the 1959 example. The three sculptures are surely portraits of the same young woman with plaited hair, presumably the artist’s wife.


    References: See a similar, larger example in George Swinton, Eskimo Sculpture, (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Ltd., 1965), p. 154. See also George Swinton, Sculpture of the Inuit, (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972/92), fig. 286, p. 158 and Jean Blodgett, Selections from The John and Mary Robertson Collection of Inuit Sculpture, (Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1986), cat. 36, p. 57, also illustrated in Walker’s Auctions, Nov. 2011, Lot 6.


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    Private Collection, Montreal;
    Walker’s Auctions, Nov. 2014, Lot 7;
    Private Collection, Montreal.
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