Artist Joe Talirunili
Title Pootoogook Harpooning the Bear #27/30
Media stonecut on paper
Dated
1964
Size 15 x 14 in. / 38.1 x 35.6 cm.
Frame Size 23.5 x 23.25 x 1 in.
Sold $450
Estimate $400 - $600
Notes
signed in print upper centre; signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with syllabics along bottom; framed with archival mat
Provenance
from a private collection
Biographical Information
Joe Talirunili ~ [1908-1976] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-818, community Povungnituk; see Joe Talirunili, a Grace Beyond the Reach of Art, ed.M.Myers, Federation des cooperatives du Nouveau, 1977; Sculpture of the Inuit, by G.Swinton, pg.359, McClelland Stewart, 1992; in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers