Lot 96
JESSIE OONARK ᔪᓯ ᐃᓇ, O.C., R.C.A. (1906-1985)
Provenance:
Estate of W.A. Ross MacFadden, Toronto, ON
Note:
Sarah Milroy notes in Jessie Oonark, Flashback, written for Inuit Art Quarterly in March 2018, that Oonark’s use of “often dramatic dislocations of scale in the service of emphasis—an approach unfamiliar to European eyes accustomed to three-point perspective. In Oonark’s world, scale speaks not of foreground proximity but of importance…the whole is understood, with Oonark indulging an emphatic pictorial shorthand that is all the more expressive for its economy.” Accordingly, we can read Oonark’s Women as vital forces, larger than life in terms of both scale and importance. [1] This image was chosen for the cover of the 1970 Baker Lake catalogue.
(1) Sarah Milroy, “Jessie Oonark, Flashback”, Inuit Art Quarterly, Accessed April 24, 2022, Click here to read more