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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Mother and Child , c. 1949-50
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Mother and Child , c. 1949-50
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    UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON)

    Mother and Child , c. 1949-50
    stone and soap inlay, 4.25 x 2 x 1.75 in (10.8 x 5.1 x 4.4 cm), measurements reflect dimensions without later added acrylic base
    apparently unsigned.
    LOT 1
    ESTIMATE: $2,500 — $3,500
    PRICE REALIZED: $4,560.00

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) LUCY TASSEOR TUTSWEETOK (1934-2012) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Mother and Child, late 1990s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) LUCY TASSEOR TUTSWEETOK (1934-2012) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Mother and Child, late 1990s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) LUCY TASSEOR TUTSWEETOK (1934-2012) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Mother and Child, late 1990s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) LUCY TASSEOR TUTSWEETOK (1934-2012) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Mother and Child, late 1990s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) LUCY TASSEOR TUTSWEETOK (1934-2012) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Mother and Child, late 1990s
    • Mother and Child

    This lovely and very early Inukjuak Mother and Child is in many ways reminiscent of the wonderful Standing Woman from the First Arts July 2020 sale (Lot 2). In cataloguing the latter carving we wondered whether it might not be the work of Akeeaktashuk. Here the combination of unusually deep carving and finely incised and inlaid details makes us wonder again whether this gem is perhaps by the hand of the master. Regardless of authorship, Mother and Child stands as a masterpiece from the very earliest period of Inukjuak art.


    References: For a similar small work see First Arts, Toronto, 12 July 2020, Lot 2, also illustrated in Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Sculpture / Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971), fig. 211; also illustrated in George Swinton, Sculpture of the Inuit, (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972/92), fig. 185.
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    Provenance

    Ex Collection M.F. (Budd) Feheley, Toronto;
    Private Collection, Canada;
    Waddington's, Toronto, June 2015, Lot 85;
    Acquired from the above by John and Joyce Price, Seattle.
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