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Artworks
ATTRIBUTED TO MATEE ATANGAK TIKTAK (1916-D) KANGIQLINIQ (RANKIN INLET)
Female Figure, c. 1959-60stone, 3.5 x 1.5 x 1 in (8.9 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm)
inscribed and signed by John Tiktak, the artist's husband: "ᑎᑕ" and with his disc number.Lot 120
ESTIMATE: $2,000 — $3,000
PRICE REALIZED: $2,880.00Further images
This lovely small figure of a woman or girl was originally attributed to John Tiktak, not for stylistic reasons but because it was so clearly signed by him. Although it...This lovely small figure of a woman or girl was originally attributed to John Tiktak, not for stylistic reasons but because it was so clearly signed by him. Although it may yet turn out to be one of his earliest works in existence, we can’t be sure. Our hunch is that it is more likely to have been carved by his wife Matee Atangak. It may have been brought to the local co-op by Tiktak and signed by him there. Atangak is known to have carved occasionally; a Standing Figure by her from c. 1965 (with a strong “family resemblance” to a Tiktak!) was offered by Walker’s Auctions, 18 May 2017, Lot 181. Female Figure is an incredibly charming little work of art, with a doll-like naïveté. Interestingly, it is now one of the very few carvings attributed to a female artist living in Rankin Inlet in the early years of artmaking in that community.
References: For a later work by Atangak (c. 1965) see Walker’s Auctions, 18 May 2017, Lot 181.
Provenance
Walker's Auctions, Ottawa, 11 November 2012, Lot 108, as "John Tiktak";
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Toronto.
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