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Artworks
ANDY MIKI (1918-1983) ARVIAT/TIKIRAQJUAQ (ESKIMO POINT/WHALE COVE)
Dog, c. 1960-62stone 3.25 x 5 x 1.5 in (8.3 x 12.7 x 3.8 cm)
signed, "ᒥᑭ".
LOT 85
ESTIMATE: $3,000 — $5,000Further images
Andy Miki and his family were removed from inland Kitigaq (Ennadai Lake) to Arviat in 1959. They soon resettled in Rankin Inlet for a time (where he began carving) before...Andy Miki and his family were removed from inland Kitigaq (Ennadai Lake) to Arviat in 1959. They soon resettled in Rankin Inlet for a time (where he began carving) before moving on to Whale Cove in the mid 1960s and finally back to Arviat in 1969. Miki’s early carvings are generally dated to his Whale Cove years, but we are quite certain that this remarkable and incredibly charming Dog dates from at least as early as his stay in Rankin Inlet (or possibly even from his first stint in Arviat), making it perhaps his very earliest documented carving. The presentation on a base suggests that Miki was still learning how to make sculpture. Dog has the naturalism of Miki’s later Whale Cove works yet hardly any degree of stylization or abstraction – apart from the head with its trademark eyes. Exciting!
References: For a fine Whale Cove period Dog by Miki see Ingo Hessel, Inuit Art: An Introduction, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / New York: Harry Abrams / London: British Museum Press, 1998), pl. 82, p. 103; also illustrated in Norman Zepp, Pure Vision: The Keewatin Spirit, (Regina: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1986), cat. 1, p. 62. This referenced work has been tentatively dated to c. 1960-64, but it likely dates from c. 1963-65.Provenance
Private Collection, Montreal.
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