Inuit Art Select

June 0409, 2022
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LOT 5

Lot 5

DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950)

DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950)
Lot 5 Details
DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950), Paulatuk

TRANSFORMING SHAMAN

stone, ivory
signed in Roman, 1992
4.75 x 2.25 x 9 in — 12.1 x 5.7 x 22.9 cm

Estimate $1,500-$2,000

Realised: $2,040
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

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DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950)
  • DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950)
  • DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950)
  • DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950)
  • DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950)
Provenance:

Private collection, Toronto, ON

Note:

The joy of hearing stories told by his mother and grandmother about shamanism and traditional beliefs influenced a young David Ruben Piqtoukun and has spawned images recurring throughout the artist's career. [1] Faces of men and animals often appear in mask-like forms in Piqtoukun’s work, an image derived, as here, from a tradition of ceremonial and ritual masks in the Western Arctic.

Taut of skin and mossy in its complexion, the present figure’s contorted face and demon-like horns suggest a menacing air.

(1) Wight, Darlene Coward, Between Two Worlds: David Ruben Piqtoukun, (Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1996), 3.


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CONDITION DETAILS

Very good condition.

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