Artist Kenojuak Ashevak
Title Custodians of Ancestral Lore #30/75
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated
1992
Size 17.75 x 25 in. / 45.1 x 63.5 cm.
Frame Size 30.25 x 35.25 x 1 in.
Sold $1,500
Estimate $1,200 - $1,500
Notes
signed, titled, dated and numbered along bottom; Cape Dorset chop lower right; framed with archival mat
Provenance
Gallery Phillip, Don Mills, Ontario, label verso; from an Alberta estate
Biographical Information
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ [1927-2013] Inuit RCA
included on the Katilvik website, community Cape Dorset; see Kenojuak, Graphic Masterworks of the Inuit, by J.Blodgett, Mintmark Press, Toronto; biography and other examples in N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, ed.P.Landry, pg.366; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.1, by Canadian Arctic Producers; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website