Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Bear Attacking Seal #36/50
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated
1973
Size 18.5 x 11 in. / 47 x 27.9 cm.
Sold $110
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Cape Dorset' along bottom; Dorset chop lower right; unframed; minor handling marks noted and crease in upper left margin noted
Provenance
from a private collection
Biographical Information
Pitseolak Ashoona ~ [1904-1983] Inuit RCA
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1100, community Cape Dorset; see Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life, ed.D.Eber, Oxford University Press, 1971 and Inuit Artist Index, by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg.36; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.1, by Canadian Arctic Producers; Inuit Artist Index, by the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg. 36, 1990; Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website