Lot 11
Luke Iksiktaaryuk ᐃᓯᑕᔪ (1909-1977)
Lot 11 Details
Luke Iksiktaaryuk ᐃᓯᑕᔪ (1909-1977), Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake)
FIGURE WITH PLEADING HANDS, CA. 1960S
antler
unsigned; accompanied by a "Canada Eskimo Art" tag inscribed "Man with Round Head / Baker Lake, N.W.T. / 1969 / Iksiktaaryuk"
10.5 x 6.5 x 5.5 in — 26.7 x 16.5 x 14 cm
Estimate $2,000-$3,000
Additional Images
Provenance:
Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
Private Collection, Winnipeg, MB
Note:
Notably Iksiktaaryuk was one of only two Qamani'tuaq (Baker Lake) artists chosen by curator Norman Zepp to be included in his superlative exhibition Pure Vision, The Keewatin Spirit. Much of Iksiktaaryuk’s work exhibits an anxious otherworldly character as here, where an aged man’s bulbous head appears to emerge from within a wafer-thin body, strangely posed with outstretched, perhaps pleading hands.
Related Works:
Gerald McMaster, Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2011), 132-133.
Norman Zepp, Pure Vision, The Keewatin Spirit (Regina: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery University of Regina, 1986), 132, pl. 74-76.