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Artworks
URIASH PUQIQNAK (1946-) UQSUQTUUQ (GJOA HAVEN)
Frighted Mother and Child, c. mid 1990swhale bone, stone, and antler, 12.5 x 10.25 x 9 in (31.8 x 26 x 22.9 cm)
unsigned.LOT 125
ESTIMATE: $3,000 — $5,000Further images
Deeply influenced by an artistic family and community, Uriash Puqiqnak is one of Gjoa Haven’s leading artists. His unique vision and hand, coupled with his strong feelings about passing on...Deeply influenced by an artistic family and community, Uriash Puqiqnak is one of Gjoa Haven’s leading artists. His unique vision and hand, coupled with his strong feelings about passing on Inuit culture, legends and traditions through art, have made for a distinctive canon of work. Here, in one of Puqiqnak’s most masterful creations, whale bone becomes a canvas for powerful emotions of fear and angst. The woman reacts to some horror unseen by the viewer. The child, perhaps more entranced than terrified, nonetheless clings to its mother who, with hips askew under the child’s weight, has one foot back as if ready to run! Impressive.
References: See the section on the artist in Darlene Coward Wight, Art & Expression of the Netsilik, (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2000), pp. 130-135. For other fine examples of the artist’s work see Robert Kardosh, Vision and Form: The Norman Zepp - Judith Varga Collection of Inuit Art, exh.cat., (Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 2003), cat. 52, p. 71. For examples of the artist’s work see First Arts, Toronto, 14 June 2022, Lot 102, and Walker’s Auctions, Nov. 2017, Lot 153; and May 2018, Lot 211.Provenance
Waddingtons, Toronto, 17 Nov 2011, Lot 3;
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Toronto.
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