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Lot 63

KEELEEMEEOOMEE SAMUALIE ᑭᓕᒥᐅᒥ (1919-1983)

KEELEEMEEOOMEE SAMUALIE ᑭᓕᒥᐅᒥ (1919-1983)
Lot 63 Details
KEELEEMEEOOMEE SAMUALIE ᑭᓕᒥᐅᒥ (1919-1983), Kinngait (Cape Dorset)

THE WHALE HUNT OF OLD

stonecut and stencil
1983, 15/50, unframed
19.5 x 26 in — 49.5 x 66 cm

Estimate $300-$500

Realised: $660
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Provenance:

Estate of W.A. Ross MacFadden, Toronto, ON

Note:

An artist of great modesty and talent, Keeleemeeoomee praised the drawings of her daughter Eiyakota, but has suggested that her own were as much a matter of utility as of expression, and yet what expression she does give to her subjects. [1] In the Whale Hunt of Old there is a marvelous rhythm in the scale of her creatures of the sea, as in the arching oars of the whalers straining to follow their prey.

(1) Ryan, Leslie Boyd, Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective Fifty Years of Printmaking at Kinngait Studios, (Petaluma: Pomegranate Communications, 2007), 166.

CONDITION DETAILS

Slight foxing, soft handing dents. Overall very good condition.

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