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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: UNIDENTIFIED INUIT ARTIST, PROBABLY SALLUIT (SUGLUK), Mother Holding a Child, early or mid 1950s
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: UNIDENTIFIED INUIT ARTIST, PROBABLY SALLUIT (SUGLUK), Mother Holding a Child, early or mid 1950s
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: UNIDENTIFIED INUIT ARTIST, PROBABLY SALLUIT (SUGLUK), Mother Holding a Child, early or mid 1950s
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: UNIDENTIFIED INUIT ARTIST, PROBABLY SALLUIT (SUGLUK), Mother Holding a Child, early or mid 1950s
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: UNIDENTIFIED INUIT ARTIST, PROBABLY SALLUIT (SUGLUK), Mother Holding a Child, early or mid 1950s

    UNIDENTIFIED INUIT ARTIST, PROBABLY SALLUIT (SUGLUK)

    Mother Holding a Child, early or mid 1950s
    stone, 6 x 3.5 x 3.5 in (15.2 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm)
    unsigned.
    LOT 4
    ESTIMATE: $1,000 — $1,500
    PRICE REALIZED: $1,464.00

    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
    • Mother Holding a Child
    It never ceases to amaze us how some small and seemingly simple and naïve sculptures can exude such emotional and aesthetic power. The mother holds her diminutive youngster (clearly a...
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    It never ceases to amaze us how some small and seemingly simple and naïve sculptures can exude such emotional and aesthetic power. The mother holds her diminutive youngster (clearly a toddler, not a baby) as if it were a doll. This lends an endearing quality to an image that is otherwise surprisingly monumental and profoundly moving. We love how the woman’s sensitively carved head and face is so beautifully framed by her expansive hood. Stunning.
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    Provenance

    Collected by a federal government administrator during his travels in the Eastern Arctic in the 1950s;
    by descent in the family.
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FIRST ARTS PREMIERS INC.  
Nadine Di Monte   |    647-286-5012   |    info@firstarts.ca 

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The main office of First Arts Premiers Inc. is located on the ancestral and traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat, the original owners and custodians of this land.  Today, it is home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.

 

 

 

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