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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PITSEOLAK NIVIAQSI R.C.A. (1947-2015) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Mother Playing with Two Children, c. 2000
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PITSEOLAK NIVIAQSI R.C.A. (1947-2015) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Mother Playing with Two Children, c. 2000
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PITSEOLAK NIVIAQSI R.C.A. (1947-2015) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Mother Playing with Two Children, c. 2000
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PITSEOLAK NIVIAQSI R.C.A. (1947-2015) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Mother Playing with Two Children, c. 2000
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PITSEOLAK NIVIAQSI R.C.A. (1947-2015) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Mother Playing with Two Children, c. 2000

    PITSEOLAK NIVIAQSI R.C.A. (1947-2015) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)

    Mother Playing with Two Children, c. 2000
    stone, 19 x 17.5 x 7.25 in (48.3 x 44.5 x 18.4 cm),
    signed, "ᐱᓯᐅᓚ / ᓂᕕᐊᓯ
    Lot 70
    ESTIMATE: $10,000 — $15,000
    PRICE REALIZED: $9,500.00

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) ELIZABETH NUTARAALUK AULATJUT (1914-1998) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Kayaker and Owl, c. late 1960s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) ELIZABETH NUTARAALUK AULATJUT (1914-1998) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Kayaker and Owl, c. late 1960s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) ELIZABETH NUTARAALUK AULATJUT (1914-1998) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Kayaker and Owl, c. late 1960s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) ELIZABETH NUTARAALUK AULATJUT (1914-1998) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Kayaker and Owl, c. late 1960s
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) ELIZABETH NUTARAALUK AULATJUT (1914-1998) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), Kayaker and Owl, c. late 1960s
    • Mother Playing with Two Children
    A supreme talent both in sculpture and graphic arts, Pitseolak Niviaqsi had an eye for exquisite and precise detail and a knack for creating beautiful movement in his work. Though...
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    A supreme talent both in sculpture and graphic arts, Pitseolak Niviaqsi had an eye for exquisite and precise detail and a knack for creating beautiful movement in his work. Though static in pose, this Mother Playing with Two Children is a wonderfully cheerful and lively composition; the two children push and climb to get a better view of what’s ahead, grasping their mother’s head. The mother, strong in stance and with a gentle smile, holds one small hand and one braid aloft, either in play or in an effort to keep it away from clutching fingers! Carefully carved in a vibrant green stone, this work has a charming and subtle interplay of positive and negative space around the many limbs of the figures. Another superb addition to Pitseolak’s small sculptural oeuvre.

    References: For other fine works by the artist, see First Arts, Toronto, 12 June 2023, Lot 29, and further, including a depiction of the artist’s wife Sita and their twins, see the Spirit Wrestler solo exhibition catalogue, The Lyrical World of Pitseolak Niviaqsi, (Vancouver: Spirit Wrestler Gallery, 2001). For other important works by the artist see Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2006), cat. 181 (see text), and the front cover of the Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2002, illustrating Fisherwoman with Twins from 2001.
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    Provenance

    Collection of John and Joyce Price, Seattle.
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