Lot 104
KENOJUAK ASHEVAK ᑭᓄᔭᐊ ᐊᓯᕗ, C.C., R.C.A. (1927-2013)
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Provenance:
Private collection, Toronto, ON
Literature:
Leslie Boyd Ryan, Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective Fifty Years of Printmaking at Kinngait Studios, (Petaluma: Pomegranate Communications, 2007), 244.
Note:
Remarkable in its evocation of shadow and stormy grey sky, and for its use of almost luminous colour, this striking work by Kenojuak Ashevak finds variation on old themes reinvigorated by etching and aquatint processes new to the artist in the mid-1990s and introduced by printmaker Paul Machik. [1] A work of remarkable presence with its radiant amorphous form and surround of scattered specks of light, it is no wonder that this work was chosen as the cover image of Cape Dorset Prints, the superlative retrospective of Kinngait art published in 2007.
(1) Leslie Boyd Ryan, Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective Fifty Years of Printmaking at Kinngait Studios, (Petaluma: Pomegranate Communications, 2007), 242.