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Artworks
SAMUEL NAHAULAITUQ (1923-1999) TALOYOAK (SPENCE BAY)
Standing Figure, c. 1970-71whalebone and stone, 11.5 x 12 x 11 in (29.2 x 30.5 x 27.9 cm)
signed, "[ᓇ?]ᔭᐅᓕᑐ".
LOT 154
ESTIMATE: $3,000 — $5,000
PRICE REALIZED: $2,688.00Further images
Standing Figure is a brilliant sculpture with a modernist flair that frankly rivals contemporaneous works by Karoo Ashevak. Interestingly, its format reminds us of a wonderful whale bone sculpture by...Standing Figure is a brilliant sculpture with a modernist flair that frankly rivals contemporaneous works by Karoo Ashevak. Interestingly, its format reminds us of a wonderful whale bone sculpture by Sakkiassee Anaija from 1969 (see First Arts June 2022, Lot 70), and was almost surely carved from a very similar piece of bone. Nahaulaituq began carving mostly whale bone in the late 1960s but only took up carving as a livelihood after moving off the land and into Taloyoak (then Spence Bay) in 1972, after which he carved mostly in stone. He was considered one of the foremost Taloyoak sculptors throughout the 1980s and was given five solo exhibitions in Canada, Germany, and the U.S. Five sculptures by the artist were included in Darlene Wight’s Art & Expression of the Netsilik exhibition (WAG, 2000).
References: For a discussion of and illustrations of the artist’s work see Darlene Coward Wight, Art & Expression of the Netsilik, (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2000),
pp. 86-89.
Provenance
Private Collection, Toronto.
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