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Artworks
JOHN PANGNARK (1920-1980) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT)
Kneeling Woman in an Amautiq, early 1970sstone, 4.5 x 4.25 x 2.25 in (11.4 x 10.8 x 5.7 cm)
signed, "ᐸᓂᔭ".LOT 16
ESTIMATE: $3,500 — $5,000Further images
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To the uninitiated, Pangnark’s carvings can appear deceptively simple but works such as the present one are, in fact, made witn extraordinary control. Here, the form of the figure is...To the uninitiated, Pangnark’s carvings can appear deceptively simple but works such as the present one are, in fact, made witn extraordinary control. Here, the form of the figure is created by Pangnark painstakingly. The planar front between the edges of the legs is worked almost entirely flat, interrupted only by a slight smooth bulge at the lower right that suggests the body beneath. At the waist, Pangnark marks the hands as tiny, almost wedge-like terminals, sharply defined by a chisel and softened by his rasp. From there, the arm forms rise to frame the slightly recessed face, creating the chin of the hood, then continue upward and back into the hood’s contour, which Pangnark resolves in a lovely pointed tip.
Like the strongest of Pangnark’s carvings, this work strikes an extraordinary balance between reduction and feeling. And, like his most beloved works, its raised edges have developed a rich patina, recording the pleasure it has given over time: places where countless admirers have run their thumbs along the edges to feel the rasp and file lines, and to marvel at just how much Pangnark could do with forms that, at first, seem so simple.
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References: For a selection of important works by the artist see the section on Pangnark in Norman Zepp, Pure Vision: The Keewatin Spirit, (Regina: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1986), pp. 74-85. For additional works by the artist see Bernadette Driscoll, Eskimo Point/Arviat, (Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1982).Provenance
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