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Artworks
TIM PITSIULAK (1967-2016) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
Family of Eight, 2008 #34Printmaker: PITSEOLAK NIVIAQSI, R.C.A. (1947-2015) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
lithograph, 15.5 x 22 in (38.7 x 55.9 cm)
20/50LOT 28
ESTIMATE: $600 — $900
PRICE REALIZED: $2,400.00'Tim Pitsiulak has become a chronicler of the everyday, and the overloaded four-wheeler in Family of Eight is a ubiquitous sight on the streets of Cape Dorset.' 1 As ubiquitous..."Tim Pitsiulak has become a chronicler of the everyday, and the overloaded four-wheeler in Family of Eight is a ubiquitous sight on the streets of Cape Dorset." 1
As ubiquitous as the four-wheeler is to Kinngait (Cape Dorset), so is that of a Mother tending to her family. The times may change around them, but the basic principles remain the same; everyone is to be fed, cared for, and taken to hockey practice on time.
1) Leslie Boyd Ryan, Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection 2008 (Dorset Fine Arts, Kinngait), pg. 3.
Provenance
Private Collection, Australia.