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Artworks
NAPACHIE POOTOOGOOK (1938 -2002) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
Eskimo Sea Dreams, 1960 #42Printmaker: IYOLA KINGWATSIAK (1933-2000) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
stonecut, 17.75 x 23.75 in (45.1 x 60.3 cm)*, framed
18/50LOT 2
ESTIMATE: $3,000 — $5,000Eskimo Sea Dreams beautifully conveys Inuit oral history overlapping with traditional Inuit life in an imagined world. Here are two scenes, each depicted against a mottled brilliantly blue sea. Humans...Eskimo Sea Dreams beautifully conveys Inuit oral history overlapping with traditional Inuit life in an imagined world. Here are two scenes, each depicted against a mottled brilliantly blue sea. Humans go about their day, apparently unaware or unbothered by the supernatural figures going about their own business. Napachie explained the scene in Inuit Women Artists (1994, p. 137), sharing, “The image is a whaling scene and telling a tale. Whales and bears and other animals turn into humans in Inuit mythology. It is depicting an Inuit myth even though I have not witnessed anything happening like that in real life.”
*While many early Kinngait stonecuts were printed on whatever sheets of paper were on hand and the concepts of uniformity and standardization did not take hold until the early 1960s, the possibility exists that this particular example might have been trimmed.Provenance
Collection of John and Joyce Price, Seattle.
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