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Artworks
VICTORIA MAMNGUQSUALUK (1930-2016) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
Untitled (Scene from the Story of Qiviuq)coloured pencil on heavy wove paper, 22 x 30 in (55.9 x 76.2 cm), framed
signed, "ᒪᒍᓯᐊᓗ".LOT 76
ESTIMATE: $800 — $1,200
PRICE REALIZED: $780.00The Art Gallery of Ontario noted on her recent solo exhibition that '[Victoria] Mamnguqsualuk’s style features confident and diverse lines that create a landscape in motion—one filled with people, animals,...The Art Gallery of Ontario noted on her recent solo exhibition that "[Victoria] Mamnguqsualuk’s style features confident and diverse lines that create a landscape in motion—one filled with people, animals, and beings from the spirit world. There are no empty arctic vistas in her work." Untitled (Scene from the Story of Qiviuq?) keeps to this immediately recognizable aspect of Mamnguqsualuk’s work, showing a visual cacophony of activity. Beasts and spirit alike converge on the central figure, perhaps Qiviuq, in a whirl of snarling teeth and projected tongues
Provenance
Private Collection, Saskatoon, SK.Literature
For more information about Victoria Mamnguqsualuk and her art see Charles Moore, Keeveeok Awake!: Mamnguqsualuk and the Rebirth of Legend at Baker Lake (Edmonton: Ring House Gallery / University of Alberta Press, 1986). See also the recent solo exhibition of work in Victoria Mamnguqsualuk, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 10 September 2022 - 2 January 2023.
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