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Artworks
JANET KIGUSIUQ (1926-2005) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
Untitled Drawing (Standing Couple), early 2000scoloured pencil and graphite on paper, 15 x 11.25 in (38.1 x 28.6 cm)
inscribed with artist's disc number and signed, "E271 - ᑭᒍᓯᐅ".LOT 31
ESTIMATE: $400 — $600
PRICE REALIZED: $366.00Kigusiuq’s early drawings were busy affairs, drawn almost in black-and-white. When she “discovered” colour in the late 1980s she began using it with increasing intensity; at the same time her...Kigusiuq’s early drawings were busy affairs, drawn almost in black-and-white. When she “discovered” colour in the late 1980s she began using it with increasing intensity; at the same time her figures became larger and fewer as time went on. Kigusiuq’s drawings of the late 1990s and early 2000s reveal a heightened sense of colour for its own sake, to the degree that some of her landscapes are almost abstract colour fields. This charming drawing is possibly a self-portrait of Kigusiuq and her late husband Mark Uqayuittuq. They are shown in a “landscape” setting of shifting bands of colour. As was typical of her late style, Kigusiuq used the white paper not as background but as delineation of certain details in the figures.
Provenance
Collection of John and Joyce Price, Seattle.
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