Pruzansky Collection
Lot offered for sale by Walker's, Ottawa at the auction event "Inuit & First Nations Art Auction of November 22, 2017" held on Wed, Nov 22, 2017.
Lot 263
Lot 263
Estimate: CAD $500 - $800
Realised: CAD $944
Realised: CAD $944
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Bessie Kakagon (1914-1958)
Kugluktuk (Coppermine), Woman and Child, Carrying a Water Pail, early-mid 1950s, stone and sinew, 3.25 x 1.75 x 1.5 in, 8.2 x 4.7 x 4 cm
Provenance: Pruzansky Collection
References: see a work by Kakagon in Sculpture/Inuit (1971) fig. 295, and Swinton (1972/92) fig. 818; also see Walker's Nov. 2012 (Lot 1).
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