Artist Kananginak Pootoogook
Title Intrepid Caribou #50/50
Media stonecut on paper
Dated
2002
Size 18.5 x 12.75 in. / 47 x 32.4 cm.
Sold $450
Estimate $800 - $1,000
Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered, inscribed 'Dorset' and with syllabics along bottom; Dorset chop lower right; unframed
Provenance
from a private collection
Biographical Information
Kananginak Pootoogook ~ [1935-2010] Inuit RCA
see biography in
Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers;
included in Sculpture of the Eskimo, by G.Swinton, 1972;
Arts of the Eskimo: Prints, by P.Furneaux, Signum Press, 1974;
Cape Dorset Print Collection 1970, Eskimo Graphic Art;
The Inuit Print, by the National Museums of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, 1977;
Inuit Artist Index, by the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg. 164, 1990;
Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1168, community Cape Dorset / Kinngait
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]