Artist Kananginak Pootoogook
Title A Collection of Etchings: Portfolio IV
Media colour etchings on paper
Dated
1982
Size 18.5 x 20.5 x 0.5 in. / 47 x 52.1 x 1.3 cm.
Sold $800
Estimate $900 - $1,200
Notes
LOT OF SIX; includes prints: Snowy Owl, Geese in Spring, Boats I Have Known, Near My Father's House, My People's World, Camp From My Past; prints measure approx. [11 x 13 in.]; each are signed, titled, numbered, dated and inscribed with syllabics along bottom; unframed in portfolio
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Kananginak Pootoogook ~ [1935-2010] Inuit RCA
see biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers; included in Sculpture of the Eskimo, by G.Swinton, 1972; Arts of the Eskimo: Prints, by P.Furneaux, Signum Press, 1974; included in Cape Dorset Print Collection 1970, Eskimo Graphic Art; The Inuit Print, by the National Museums of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, 1977; Inuit Artist Index, by the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg. 164, 1990; Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]; listed on www.katilvik.com disc # E7-1168