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Artworks
JOSIAH NUILAALIK (1928-2005) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
Bird Spirit, 1970 (1971 #45)Printmaker: BASIL APTANIK (1952-) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
stonecut, 17.25 x 21.25 in (43.8 x 54 cm)
26/50LOT 44
ESTIMATE: $800 — $1,200
PRICE REALIZED: $480.00The only image contributed to the annual Baker Lake print catalogues, Bird Spirit is an early graphic essay on the theme of the transformation, a subject that populated Nuilaalik's vision...The only image contributed to the annual Baker Lake print catalogues, Bird Spirit is an early graphic essay on the theme of the transformation, a subject that populated Nuilaalik's vision incessantly throughout his year as a sculptor. Printed with sparkling contrasts and clarity, the forms of the two animals crisscross with assurance, with the antlers of the caribou subtly transforming to create both the head and another wing of the bird.
Provenance
Private Collection, Hamilton.Literature
Image reproduced in Estrellita Karsh, et. al, Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art, (Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1977), pl. 24, unpaginated.1of 24
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