Lot 69
JESSIE OONARK (1906-1985)
Note:
“A capricious composition suggesting the communal igloo where games were played, and dancing, wrestling and athletic feats were performed. Oonark is the first, and so far the only artist to use colour over the whole surface of the image.”
from Furneaux, Patrick and Leo Rosshandler, Ernst Roch, ed., Art of the Eskimo: Prints, Signum Press, 1974, pp. 228-9