SHEOJUK ETIDLOOIE (1932-1999) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET), Three Bears, 1997 #29

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Printmaker: STUDIO PM, Montreal
etching and aquatint, sheet: 23.5 x 31.5 in (59.7 x 80 cm) / plate: 14.75 x 22.75 in (37.5 x 57.8 cm)
7/50

LOT 51
ESTIMATE: $800 — $1,200
PRICE REALIZED: $488.00

Sheojuk Etidlooie’s short but remarkable career began in 1993 when, despite not having tried her hand art drawing before, Sheojuk was awarded first prize at an Anglican Church Christmas event...

Sheojuk Etidlooie’s short but remarkable career began in 1993 when, despite not having tried her hand art drawing before, Sheojuk was awarded first prize at an Anglican Church Christmas event in Kinngait for her drawing of a qulliq. Her bold and colourful interpretations attracted the attention of Jimmy Manning, then the West Baffin Cooperative manager, who encouraged Sheojuk to continue her art. In 1994, her designs were made into lithographs for inclusion in the Cape Dorset annual print collection. She was soon a major figure in Kinngait's art community, and in 1998, her images accounted for almost half the annual print collection.

Sheojuk’s drawings have a whimsical childlike quality and a wonderful sense of immediacy. This latter aspect of her art is especially apparent with her etching and aquatint prints. Simultaneously “primitive,” abstract, and sophisticated, Three Bears delights us with its very ambiguity of form. Almost the polar opposite of a wildlife artist like Kananginak, Sheojuk opts to give us a fleeting and mysterious impression of three bears on the move.

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A Toronto Collection.

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