Lot 120
BARNABUS ARNASUNGAAQ ᐸᓇᐸᓯ ᐊᓇᓴᒐ (1924-2017)
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Provenance:
Private collection, Thornhill, ON
Note:
Barnabus Arnasungaaq carved a wide variety of subject matter over his early career beginning in the early 1960s, but by the mid 1970s market demand for his exceptional musk oxen dictated that he limit himself largely to representations of these remarkable giants of the tundra. An avid hunter and active provider for his family, he sometimes tired of carving and yet approached his subjects time and again with a seemingly endless variation and depth of insight. [1]
Substantial in size and presence, and witness to the artist’s eye for the essential in his subject, the present weighty and monumental musk ox is representative of the artist’s turn toward bolder and more voluminous shapes in his late career.
(1) Emily E. Auger, The Way of Inuit Art, Aesthetics and History In and Beyond the Arctic, (North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc, 2004), 66.
Related Works:
Waddington’s Auctioneers, Toronto, ON, November 25, 2021, Lot 13. Click here to read more