Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Attacked by Mosquitoes #50/50
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated 1983
Size 19.75 x 16.75 in. / 50.2 x 42.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' and with syllabics along bottom; Dorset chop lower left; unframed

Provenance
from a private collection
Estimate CAD$300-$500

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Bear Attacking Seal #19/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1973
Size 18.5 x 11 in. / 47 x 27.9 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Cape Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop lower right; unframed

Provenance
from a private collection
Estimate CAD$300-$500

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Eskimos on Sealskin Boat #18/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1972
Size 20.25 x 19.25 in. / 51.4 x 48.9 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop lower right; unframed

Provenance
from a private collection
Estimate CAD$300-$500

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Fleeing Spirit #45/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1972
Size 15.5 x 20 in. / 39.4 x 50.8 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Cape Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop lower right; unframed; minor handling marks in lower left margin noted

Provenance
from a private collection
Estimate CAD$300-$500

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Attacked by Bees #17/50
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated 1980
Size 7.75 x 11 in. / 19.7 x 27.9 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' and with syllabics along bottom; Dorset chop lower right; framed with archival mat

Provenance
from a private collection
Estimate CAD$200-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title New Birds #12/50
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated 1977
Size 22 x 14 in. / 55.9 x 35.6 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated and inscribed with syllabics and 'Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop upper right; framed; minor yellowing and creasing noted throughout

Provenance
purchased at Canada House Gallery, Banff; private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$200-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Return From the Hunt #17/50
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated 1980
Size 7.5 x 12 in. / 19 x 30.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated and inscribed with syllabics along bottom; Dorset chop upper left; framed with archival mat

Provenance
from a private collection
Estimate CAD$200-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Seamaids with Walrus #45/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1968
Size 12 x 21.25 in. / 30.5 x 54 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop lower right; framed with archival mat and special glass; minor handling marks noted throughout

Provenance
Webster Galleries, Calgary, label verso; from a private collection
Estimate CAD$200-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Summer Scene #11/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1971
Size 23 x 12.75 in. / 58.4 x 32.4 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop upper right; framed with archival mat; some very minor foxing noted

Provenance
from a Calgary estate
Estimate CAD$400-$600

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Snow Geese at Sun Set #9/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1973
Size 18 x 23 in. / 45.7 x 58.4 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Cape Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop lower left; framed with archival mat

Provenance
from a Calgary estate
Estimate CAD$400-$600

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Owls and Egg #50/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1974
Size 15 x 9.25 in. / 38.1 x 23.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop upper left; framed with archival mat

Provenance
from a Calgary estate
Estimate CAD$200-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Innukshuit And Geese #12/50 Innukshuit And Geese #12/50
Media stonecut on paper
Dated 1963
Size 17.25 x 22.5 in. / 43.8 x 57.2 cm.

Notes
signed with artist's chop lower right; inscribed with syllabics and numbered along bottom; framed; creasing noted throughout

Provenance
The Yacowar-Petrie collection, 50 years in the making, comes from two longtime Calgarians now retired in Victoria, B.C. Anne Petrie was the award-winning CBC TV journalist [Petrie on Prime, etc.] and author [Gone to an Aunt’s]. English/Film Studies Professor Maurice Yacowar had a double stint at the University of Calgary, as the founding [and the first fired] editor of the student paper, The Gauntlet, then as Dean of Fine Arts.
Estimate CAD$600-$800

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Asleep in a Windbreak #30/50
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated 1977
Size 12.5 x 11.5 in. / 31.8 x 29.2 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; inscribed with syllabics and Cape Dorset chop upper right corner; framed

Provenance
Gainsborough Galleries, Calgary, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$200-$300

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Animal of Our Land #82/100
Media colour lithograph on paper
Dated 1979
Size 16.75 x 21.25 in. / 42.5 x 54 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed with syllabics and 'Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop in plate upper left; unframed

Reference
from the portfolio Twentieth Anniversary 1959-1979.; published by Gallery Moos Limited, 1979

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$200-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Owl with Fish #23/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1967
Size 15.5 x 18.25 in. / 39.4 x 46.4 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; framed; some handling marks to frame noted

Provenance
from the collection of Bente Roed, author of Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985
Estimate CAD$400-$600

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Skin Tent #34/50
Media etching on paper
Dated 1968
Size 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 24.8 x 29.8 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated and numbered along bottom; shrink wrapped with archival mat; unframed

Provenance
private collection, British Columbia
Estimate CAD$150-$250

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Moulting Geese #5/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1974
Size 12.25 x 21.25 in. / 31.1 x 54 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Cape Dorset chop lower left; framed; stain in paper noted lower left

Provenance
private collection, Victoria
Estimate CAD$300-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Skipping Rope #23/40
Media stonecut on paper
Dated 1962
Size 5 x 7.5 in. / 12.7 x 19 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Cape Dorset chop lower right; framed with archival mat

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$700-$900

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Ahiggik #13/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1978
Size 8.75 x 12.5 in. / 22.2 x 31.8 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Cape Dorset chop upper right; framed with archival mat and special glass

Provenance
Private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$200-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Animals of Our Land #A/P
Media colour lithograph on paper
Dated 1979 -`
Size 16.5 x 20.25 in. / 41.9 x 51.4 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered, inscribed 'Dorset' and with syllabics along bottom; Cape Dorset chop upper left; framed with archival mat

Reference
Art Rental Service of the Art Gallery of Ontario, label verso

Provenance
Gallery Moos, Toronto, label verso; from the estate of Jerry Segal, formerly of Cottage Craft Gifts and Fine Arts Ltd. in Calgary and also known as Western Canada's 'Sub King'; proceeds being generously donated to a Synagogue
Estimate CAD$200-$250

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Tinuak and Eguchak [Catching a Mosquito] #10/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1975
Size 17.75 x 10 in. / 45.1 x 25.4 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Cape Dorset chop and syllabics lower right; framed with archival mat

Provenance
from the estate of Jerry Segal, formerly of Cottage Craft Gifts and Fine Arts Ltd. in Calgary and also known as Western Canada's 'Sub King'; proceeds being generously donated to a Synagogue
Estimate CAD$200-$250

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title The Chase #33/50
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated 1983
Size 18.75 x 13.25 in. / 47.6 x 33.7 cm.

Notes
inscribed with syllabics lower right; signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Cape Dorset chop upper right; framed with archival mat

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$150-$250

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Migration Towards Our Summer Camp #3/50
Media colour lithograph on paper
Dated 1983
Size 25 x 19 in. / 63.5 x 48.3 cm.

Notes
signed with syllabics, signed, titled, dated and numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop lower left; framed with archival mat

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$2,500-$3,500

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Lumaiyu #22/50
Media colour stone cut on paper
Dated 1976
Size 15 x 18.5 in. / 38.1 x 47 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; unframed; minor handling marks noted

Provenance
private collection, Vancouver; property being sold to benefit the Vancouver Biennale International Artist Residency Program
Estimate CAD$400-$600

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Bear Attacking Seal #36/50
Media colour stone cut on paper
Dated 1973
Size 8.25 x 11 in. / 21 x 27.9 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; unframed; minor handling marks noted

Provenance
private collection, Vancouver; property being sold to benefit the Vancouver Biennale International Artist Residency Program
Estimate CAD$300-$500

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Lovers Stranded on Tidal Island #50/50
Media colour stone cut on paper
Dated 1974
Size 10.25 x 15.75 in. / 26 x 40 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; signed with syllabics and Dorset chop upper left; unframed; some minor handling marks noted

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$250-$350

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Away to the Fishcakes #1/50
Media colour lithograph on paper
Dated 1979
Size 7.75 x 6.5 in. / 19.7 x 16.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, numbered and inscribed with syllabics and community 'Dorset' along bottom; printed chop lower left; embossed chops lower right; framed

Estimate CAD$150-$250

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Large Cache #37/50
Media colour stone cut on paper
Dated 1979
Size 11.5 x 14.5 in. / 29.2 x 36.8 cm.

Notes
signed with syllabics, signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop upper left; unframed; minor handling marks noted

Provenance
private collection, Canmore
Estimate CAD$150-$250

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Netsilik River #45/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1973
Size 23 x 20.25 in. / 58.4 x 51.4 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Cape Dorset' along bottom; framed; some minor handling marks noted

Provenance
private collection, Victoria
Estimate CAD$500-$700

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Untitled - Four Birds #38/50
Media etching on paper
Dated 1962
Size 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 22.2 x 29.8 cm.

Notes
signed and numbered along bottom; unframed; some handling marks noted

Provenance
from the Estate of Dr. Margaret [Marmie] Perkins Hess, see some additional information at Canadian Museum of History Announces Major Bequest of Inuit Art from the late Dr. Margaret Hess
Estimate CAD$100-$150

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Untitled - Three Tattooed Faces and Three Objects #13/50
Media etching on paper
Dated 1962
Size 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 22.2 x 29.8 cm.

Notes
signed and numbered along bottom; unframed; some creases and stains in margins and some handling marks noted

Provenance
from the Estate of Dr. Margaret [Marmie] Perkins Hess, see some additional information at Canadian Museum of History Announces Major Bequest of Inuit Art from the late Dr. Margaret Hess
Estimate CAD$100-$150

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Animals I Know #43/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1970
Size 18.25 x 17.75 in. / 46.4 x 45.1 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered, Cape Dorset chop and syllabics along bottom; unframed; some minor handling marks noted

Provenance
from the Estate of Dr. Margaret [Marmie] Perkins Hess, Calgary
Estimate CAD$500-$700

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title The Invaders #49/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1969
Size 11.25 x 15 in. / 28.6 x 38.1 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; unframed; matted; some handling marks noted

Provenance
from the Estate of Dr. Margaret [Marmie] Perkins Hess, Calgary
Estimate CAD$200-$300

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Attacking Bird #14/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1973
Size 16.75 x 8.5 in. / 42.5 x 21.6 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Cape Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop lower right; framed with archival mat and plexiglass

Provenance
from the Estate of Dr. Margaret [Marmie] Perkins Hess, Calgary
Estimate CAD$150-$250

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Untitled - Four Birds #35/50
Media etching on paper
Dated 1962
Size 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 22.2 x 29.8 cm.

Notes
signed and numbered along bottom; unframed; some handling marks noted

Provenance
from the Estate of Dr. Margaret [Marmie] Perkins Hess, Calgary
Estimate CAD$100-$150

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Untitled - Bird and Object #43/50
Media etching on paper
Dated 1962
Size 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 22.2 x 29.8 cm.

Notes
signed and numbered along bottom; framed with archival mat and plexiglass

Provenance
from the Estate of Dr. Margaret [Marmie] Perkins Hess, Calgary
Estimate CAD$100-$150

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Summer Journey #43/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1970
Size 15 x 20.25 in. / 38.1 x 51.4 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; framed; drymounted to mat board

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$300-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Evening Birds #11/50
Media colour relief print on paper
Dated 1970
Size 11.5 x 19 x 1 in. / 29.2 x 48.3 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated and numbered along bottom; chop lower right; framed

Provenance
corporate collection, Calgary/Toronto
Estimate CAD$400-$600

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Woman and Bird with Berries #1/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1974
Size 15.5 x 8.5 x 1 in. / 39.4 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; chop and inscribed with syllabics upper right; framed

Reference
illustrated No.10 in Cape Dorset Prints 1974

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$250-$350

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Untitled - Offerings to the Spirits #47/50
Media etching on paper
Dated 1962 --63
Size 7.5 x 11.25 x 1 in. / 19 x 28.6 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed and numbered along bottom; Cape Dorset chop lower right; archival mat; unframed

Estimate CAD$250-$350

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Bird Spirit and Fish #48/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1969
Size 16.25 x 17.25 x 1 in. / 41.3 x 43.8 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset 1969' along bottom; artist's chop lower right; framed

Reference
illustrated in Pitseolak: Pictures out of my life; book included with lot

Provenance
Inukshuk Galleries, Ontario, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$300-$400

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Dreams of Motherhood #33/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1969
Size 16.5 x 16.25 x 1 in. / 41.9 x 41.3 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered, and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; artist's chop lower right; framed with archival mat

Provenance
Inukshuk Galleries, Ontario, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$250-$350

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Our Camp #35/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1974
Size 24 x 19.25 x 1 in. / 61 x 48.9 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; artist's chop and syllabics upper right; framed; minor foxing on left side and some yellowing noted

Reference
illustrated No.17 in Cape Dorset Prints 1974; catalogue included with lot

Provenance
Inukshuk Galleries, Ontario, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$500-$600

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Walrus and Narwhale [sic] #3/50
Media colour lithograph on paper
Dated 1983
Size 13.75 x 15.75 x 1 in. / 34.9 x 40 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered, inscribed 'Dorset' and artist's chop along bottom; framed with archival mat and special glass

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$150-$250

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Birds Over Makkil #3/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1975
Size 14.5 x 11 x 1 in. / 36.8 x 27.9 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated and numbered along bottom; chop lower left; unframed

Provenance
private collection, Lethbridge
Estimate CAD$500-$600

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Hunter Carrying Birds #1/50
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated 1978
Size 11 x 8 x 1 in. / 27.9 x 20.3 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated and numbered along bottom; embossed chop lower right; unframed; handling marks noted

Provenance
private collection, Edmonton
Estimate CAD$250-$350

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Walrus Together #27/50
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated 1982
Size 12 x 17 x 1 in. / 30.5 x 43.2 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated and numbered along bottom; embossed chop lower right; unframed; handling marks and creases along top margin noted

Provenance
private collection, Edmonton
Estimate CAD$150-$200

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Woman with Goslings #2/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated 1974
Size 17.25 x 9 x 1 in. / 43.8 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Dorset' along bottom; framed

Provenance
private collection, British Columbia
Estimate CAD$200-$250

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Young Caribou and Birds #6/50
Media colour stone cut on paper
Dated 1974
Size 18.5 x 15.25 x 1 in. / 47 x 38.7 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
bears name, title, date, edition number and inscription 'Cape Dorset' along bottom

Reference
print #24; paper size should be 24.5 x 34; embossed chop lower right; most minor of acid stains

Estimate CAD$250-$350

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Family Group #33/50
Media stonecut on paper
Dated 1969
Size 16.5 x 23.5 x 1 in. / 41.9 x 59.7 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed with syllabics upper left; bears artist name, title, date and number along bottom

Provenance
purchased from Fleet Galleries, Winnipeg; private collection, Lethbridge
Estimate CAD$250-$350

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Animals of the Deep #32/50
Media colour stone cut on paper
Dated 1973
Size 16.5 x 19.5 x 1 in. / 41.9 x 49.5 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled, dated, numered and inscribed 'Cape Dorset' along bottom; archival mat

Provenance
corporate collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$300-$500

Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Tunik Home #42/50
Media colour relief print on paper
Dated 1971
Size 15 x 17.75 x 1 in. / 38.1 x 45.1 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed with syllabics in block lower right; signed, dated, titled, numbered and inscribed Dorset along bottom; paper size: 19 x 24.5; archival material front and back

Provenance
purchased from Fleet Galleries, Winnipeg, Cape Dorset collection, 1971; private collection, Winnipeg
Estimate CAD$300-$400