Nuyaliaq Qimirpik

Inuit (1937 - 2007)

Nuyaliaq Qimirpik was an Inuit artist.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Nuyaliaq Qimirpik's estimated art value is C$6,000 (*)

Nuyaliaq Qimirpik's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$1,000 - C$10,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for a stone sculpture work attributed to Nuyaliaq Qimirpik (1937-2007) was C$9,600 - paid for "Horned Spirit And Owl" at Waddington's in Toronto on Tue, May 28, 2019.
ArtValue.ca has 62 auction art sale records for their stone sculpture results, with prices in the range of C$1,000 to C$10,000.

Most people think of Nuyaliaq Qimirpik as a carver of muskoxen. But for a period of perhaps no more than three years in the late 1960s, a small group of carvers in Kimmirut, led by Nuyaliaq, created a remarkable group of spirit carvings, apparently at the request of a local schoolteacher named Tony Whitbourne who was buying carvings for the government for a time - and then stopped. The same sort of spiritual flowering of art had occurred in nearby Cape Dorset in the early 1960s, in both graphic art and sculpture; however that florescence was more sustained, is far better documented, and never completely died out. Nuyaliaq's Horned Spirit and Owl is one of the most important examples of this style that we have seen. It is every bit as poetic and haunting as the Cape Dorset examples we know and admire, and it is incredibly charming to boot. Wonderful stuff.

(*) Value is calculated as an average of the top stone sculpture sale records from ArtValue.ca database.
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