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Artworks
LUKE ANGUHADLUQ (1895-1982) QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
Qiviuq Crossing the Ocean, 1975 #20Printmaker: WILLIAM NOAH (1943-) QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
silkscreen (serigraph), 21.5 x 31 in (54.6 x 78.7 cm)
28/40LOT 77
ESTIMATE: $400 — $600
PRICE REALIZED: $600.00As part of their review of the October 1987 - January 1988 exhibition, Prints of the People: Prints from the John and Mary Robertson Collection of Inuit Art, the author...As part of their review of the October 1987 - January 1988 exhibition, Prints of the People: Prints from the John and Mary Robertson Collection of Inuit Art, the author explains that the image is an ambiguous one and that "Qiviok is often depicted riding a large fish, which he may be doing here." (op. cit., p. 86).Provenance
Private Collection, Hamilton.Literature
This print was reproduced in Exhibitions in Review, 1987-1988 (Kingston, ON: Queen's University, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1988), pl. 45, p. 69. See also Jean Blodgett, Tuu'luq / Anguhadluq: An Exhibition of Works by Marion Tuu'luq and Luke Anguhadluq of Baker Lake, (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1976), unpaginated for the author's brief commentary on myth in Anguhadluq's art.
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