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SHEOJUK ETIDLOOIE (1932-1999) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
Kiinanguaq (Like a Face), 1997 #32Printmaker: STUDIO PM, Montreal
etching and aquatint, sheet, sight 18.25 x 17 in (46.4 x 43.2 cm), plate 11.5 x 11.5 in (29.2 x 29.2 cm)
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As part of a banner year for a Sheojuk Etidlooie, Kiinanguaq (Like a Face) was one of 9 prints of hers to be included in the 1997 Annual Print Collection....As part of a banner year for a Sheojuk Etidlooie, Kiinanguaq (Like a Face) was one of 9 prints of hers to be included in the 1997 Annual Print Collection. Printed by Studio PM (as was lot 51, Three Bears), it was one of the 5 etching & aquatint prints Etidlooie made for that year’s collection, a medium that was a staple of her brief career. As a frequent collaborator, Paul Machnik used steel plates to allow for a more tonal quality than the traditional copper plates being used by the studio, and hand-applied colour directly onto the plate (à la poupée)to give Etidlooie’s (and other artists’) works a new sense of light and colour. Kiinanguaq has a texture that can fool the viewer into thinking this print could be a multi-media work, the layers of subtle shading providing a wonderful illusion of light and shadow.Provenance
Like many of Sheojuk’s drawings and prints, Kiinanguaq is a deceptively simple image. Brilliantly printed by Studio PM in Montreal, the work is enigmatic as well. Below the abstracted and boldly executed image of a bird (almost certainly an owl), is the much smaller and fainter face of what might be a young human child. The work brings to mind the charming sculptures of another beloved Cape Dorset artist, Latcholassie Akesuk, whose stone depictions of owls and owl-people are well-known to collectors.
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