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Artworks
MYRA KUKIIYAUT (1929-2006) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
Dark Caribou, 1972 (1973 #32)Printmaker: PHILLIPA ANINGNERK IKSIRAQ (1944-)
stencil, 22 x 30 in (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
47/50LOT 39
ESTIMATE: $300 — $500
PRICE REALIZED: $240.00Now recognizable and beloved in her work, Myra Kukiiyaut favored depicting abstract concepts from the outset of her artistic career. Dark Caribou is a deceptively simple addition to her catalogue...Now recognizable and beloved in her work, Myra Kukiiyaut favored depicting abstract concepts from the outset of her artistic career. Dark Caribou is a deceptively simple addition to her catalogue of work; at first glance this work is a caribou being bothered by many birds, their beaks taking nips and bites at the caribou's ears and tail. A closer inspection of the mottled bird bodies reveals a two headed bird chasing the caribou, although it seems like one head is less interested than the other.
Provenance
Private Collection, Hamilton.Literature
For more information about the artist, see Marie Bouchard's entry on the artist in Jules Heller & Nancy Heller eds., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century : A Biographical Dictionary (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995).