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Artworks
PAULASSIE POOTOOGOOK (1927-2006) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
Flying Boat, c. late 1980sstone and antler, 2.75 x 7 x 5.5 in (7 x 17.8 x 14 cm)
signed, "ᐸᐅᓚᓯ / ᐳᑐᒍ".LOT 8
ESTIMATE: $2,000 — $3,000
PRICE REALIZED: $1,708.00Further images
Like his brothers Kananginak and Eegyvudluk, Paulassie Pootoogook was a talented artist, creating remarkable, quite detailed sculptures, often “typical” figures of people and animals, but also more unconventional subjects such...Like his brothers Kananginak and Eegyvudluk, Paulassie Pootoogook was a talented artist, creating remarkable, quite detailed sculptures, often “typical” figures of people and animals, but also more unconventional subjects such as airplanes and religious figures. This model-like “portrait” of a vintage Canso Flying Boat shows off this artist’s mastery of mixed media (and his memory!). The details are astonishing, with the body, wings, and tail of the plane meticulously carved from stone, and antler used for the more delicate struts and propellers. A similar use of mixed media is found in his pair of portraits of the famous Canadian country and western musician Tommy Hunter (see G. McMaster, ed., Inuit Modern, AGO, 2010, p. 40).
References: For a contemporaneous and similarly beautiful and well-crafted Twin Otter by the artist from the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op Collection see Jean Blodgett In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking, (Kleinberg ON: McMichael Canadian Art Collection 1991), cat. 46, p. 133.
Provenance
Collection of John and Joyce Price, Seattle, WA.
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