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Provenance:

Private Collection, British Columbia
Waddington's Auctioneers, Toronto, ON, 5 Nov 2007, lot 283
Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2009
Private Collection, Ontario

Note:

Head, circa 1966 has all the characteristics of Tiktak’s early classic style. Executed on an impressively large scale, the slot-like narrow eyes give the impression of a figure squinting against the sun, which imbues the face with an intense feeling of realism despite its angular form, and features characterized by a reductive abstraction. Like old Okvik heads, whose weatherbeaten surfaces are scarred with scattershot lines, Head seems all the more compelling and expressive for its exceptional surface.

Sold by Marion Scott Gallery in 2009, Head had previously been acquired at Waddington’s in our November 5th 2007 Auction of Inuit Art, where our catalogue note read:

The vendor’s parents lived and worked as teachers in various communities in the North, including Chesterfield Inlet, Rankin Inlet, and later Grise Fiord, Hall Beach and Frobisher Bay. They collected Inuit art during the early 1960s to the mid 1970s. Many of the artists they collected from were known as friends and the entire family including the vendor were well versed in Inuktitut, having been brought up in the Arctic.