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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ABRAHAM TALIRUNILI P.O.V. (1927-1994) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Kneeling Mother with Two Children, 1980
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ABRAHAM TALIRUNILI P.O.V. (1927-1994) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Kneeling Mother with Two Children, 1980
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ABRAHAM TALIRUNILI P.O.V. (1927-1994) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Kneeling Mother with Two Children, 1980
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ABRAHAM TALIRUNILI P.O.V. (1927-1994) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Kneeling Mother with Two Children, 1980
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ABRAHAM TALIRUNILI P.O.V. (1927-1994) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Kneeling Mother with Two Children, 1980
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: ABRAHAM TALIRUNILI P.O.V. (1927-1994) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON), Kneeling Mother with Two Children, 1980

    ABRAHAM TALIRUNILI P.O.V. (1927-1994) INUKJUAK (PORT HARRISON)

    Kneeling Mother with Two Children, 1980
    stone, 17.75 x. 11.25 x 12 in (45.1 x 28.6 x 30.5 cm),
    dated and signed, "80 ᐊᐃᐊᔭᑲ ᐱᐅᕕ".
    LOT 137
    ESTIMATE: $4,000 — $6,000
    PRICE REALIZED: $3,904.00

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) HISTORIC PERIOD INUIT ARTIST, EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, Whistle, 1935 or earlier
    • Kneeling Mother with Two Children
    The son of the great Joe Talirunili (see Lot 29), Abraham moved from Puvirnituq to Inukjuak in the late 1940s where he was given the nickname “P.O.V.” (shortened from Povungnituk)...
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    The son of the great Joe Talirunili (see Lot 29), Abraham moved from Puvirnituq to Inukjuak in the late 1940s where he was given the nickname “P.O.V.” (shortened from Povungnituk) to differentiate him from Abraham Nastapoka. Abraham only began to carve after 1950, so his style fits completely within the Inukjuak aesthetic. Abraham P.O.V. sculptures are easily recognizable with their gentle, corpulent figures, and lovely hoods framing faces with large, almond-shaped eyes. Here we see a densely compact yet surprisingly dynamic family composition. We love how the mother seems nonplussed despite the mountaineering efforts of her somewhat caffeinated younger boy. Indeed, her gaze, and that of her older child, is almost hypnotic in its serenity.

    References: Early works by the artist are included in Darlene Coward Wight’s catalogue, Early Masters: Inuit Sculpture 1949-1955, (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2006), pages 70-73. See also George Swinton, Sculpture of the Inuit, (Toronto: M&S, 1972/92), figs. 126 and 284; and Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Sculpture / Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971), cat. 287.
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    Provenance

    Collection of John and Joyce Price, Seattle, WA.
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