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Artworks
MARK UQAYUITTUQ (1925-1984) QAMANI'TUAQ (BAKER LAKE)
Dog and Man's Head, c. 1979stone, 7.25 x 13.5 x 3 in (18.4 x 34.3 x 7.6 cm)
signed and inscribed with artist's disc number, "ᐅᑭᔪᐃᑐ / E2-70".
LOT 28
ESTIMATE: $1,000 — $1,500Further images
This strange and compelling sculpture of a dog bearing a human head on its back calls to mind the world of Kiviuq, the great wandering hero whose adventures are filled...This strange and compelling sculpture of a dog bearing a human head on its back calls to mind the world of Kiviuq, the great wandering hero whose adventures are filled with transformations and uncanny encounters, though no precise episode can be identified here. Powerful and expressive, the work gives form to the permeable boundaries between human and animal, physical and spiritual realms that run through Inuit cosmology. Uqayuittuq was not a prolific artist, but he belonged to two major Qamani’tuaq artistic families: he was the son of Luke Anguhadluq and the husband of Janet Kigusiuq, Jessie Oonark’s daughter.
MBL
References: For a somewhat stylistically similar work, see Spirit Figure, 1979, in Faye Settler, et. al, Special Small Sculptures : Old and New, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, nd (1999?), no. 69, p. 16. See also The Faye and Bert Settler Collection: Inuit Art, (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2004), p. 102.
Provenance
An American Private Collection.
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