Ulayu Pingwartok

Inuit (1904 - 1978)

Ulayu Pingwartok was an Inuit artist.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Ulayu Pingwartok's estimated art value is C$800 (*)

Ulayu Pingwartok's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$500 - C$1,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for a drawing work attributed to Ulayu Pingwartok (1904-1978) was C$885 - paid for "Purchased by Charles Gimpel. Exhibited at Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, England" at Walker's in Ottawa on Sun, Nov 4, 2012.
ArtValue.ca has 48 auction art sale records for their drawing results, with prices in the range of C$500 to C$1,000.

Nikolivek Ingnisveklu (1978)
limited edition stonecut on paper, 4/50
Dimensions - 63.5 cms x 85.73 cms x 91.44 cms (25 ins x 33.75 ins x 25 ins)

Lot for sale by Saskatchewan NAC Auction House, Regina
Lot# 94
Sun, Apr 28, 2024

Estimate $250 - $300
Sold for CAD $259

Saskatchewan NAC Auction House Biography and Notes

Ulayu Pingwartok was born in 1904 in Lake Harbour (Kimmirut), Baffin Island, Nunavut. She moved to Cape Dorset in 1959 where she began creating drawings. She created over seven hundred drawings, thirty of which were treated as prints for the Cape Dorset annual print collections. Ulayu's work was exhibited many times throughout Canada, and can be found in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull) Winnipeg Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Remai Modern (Saskatoon) and the McMichael Collection of Canadian Art. Ulayu Pingwartok died in 1978.

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