Artist Napatchie Pootoogook
Title Eskimo Mother and Children Frightened by Demons #18/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated
1961
Size 16 x 21 in. / 40.6 x 53.3 cm.
Frame Size 27.75 x 34.5 x 1 in.
Sold $220
Estimate $400 - $600
Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Cape Dorset N.W.T.' along bottom; Dorset chop upper right; framed; minor handling marks noted throughout
Provenance
Avenido Art and Framing Gallery, Calgary, label verso; from a private collection
Biographical Information
Napatchie Pootoogook ~ [1938-2002] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1104, community Cape Dorset; the Winnipeg Art Gallery organized a travelling exhibition on the artist Napachie Pootoogook; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984