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Artworks
DONAT ANAWAK (1920-1990) KANGIQLINIQ (RANKIN INLET)
Vase with Man in Cap and Polar Bear Skin in Relief, 1980sglazed ceramic, 16.5 x 10.5 x 7.25 in (41.9 x 26.7 x 18.4 cm)
unsigned;
given to the artist on an affixed inventory tag.LOT 5
ESTIMATE: $800 — $1,200Further images
Described by Claude Grenier 'as an excellent potter, with great imagination,' Donat Anawak was one of the Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet) artists who debuted his ceramics in the March 1967 show...Described by Claude Grenier "as an excellent potter, with great imagination," Donat Anawak was one of the Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet) artists who debuted his ceramics in the March 1967 show at the Toronto Reference Library.
In a 1985 interview, the artist said of his own artistic process:
When you have an idea as to what you’re going to be making,…you have to know what already happened in order to put it on a thing that everyone can see. It’s more like telling a story event without saying. [...] You would have to be able to tell a little thing on the work itself... [1]
With this in mind, what might we imagine the present work to be sharing? Perhaps it recalls his own memories of hunting, the tactile experience of the land, or the stories passed between generations that connect hunter, animal, and place. The man in his cap and the polar bear in relief seem to emerge from shared memory, a narrative pressed gently into clay.
1. Donat Anawak, Interview by Michael Mitchell. Rankin Inlet, N.W.T., March 1985. In Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Ottawa: Canadian Eskimo Arts Council in collaboration with the Inuit Art Section, INAC, and the National Film Board of Canada, 1985. As cited in Stacey Neale, The Rankin Inlet Ceramics Project: A Study in Development and Influence, Master’s thesis, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, 1997.Provenance
Collection of John and Joyce Price, Seattle.
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