Lot 60
PAUTA SAILA, R.C.A. (1916-2009)
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Provenance:
Gallery One, Toronto, 1984
Private Collection, WI
Note:
Pauta was one of the first Inuk artists to develop a distinctive, personally unique style. A Pauta bear among a shelf of polar bear sculptures is instantly recognized. Although he worked on a wide variety of subjects, his dancing bears are particularly significant to him because polar bears are important shamanistic creatures, embodied spirit helpers of Inuit culture.