Polar Bear Reflection
5.9 cms x 8.3 cms (2.32 ins x 3.27 ins)
Signed in Roman
Lot offered for sale by Waddington's, Toronto at the auction event "Inuit Art" held on Tue, Nov 20, 2018.
Lot 72
Lot 72
Estimate: CAD $1,500 - $2,000
Realised: CAD $3,120
Realised: CAD $3,120
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
"The other significant event in the shaping of his (Bill Johnstone's) taste around this time was the famous touring exhibition 'Sculpture of the Inuit - Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic' - specifically the image in the exhibition catalogue along with the same image in Cottie Burland's 1973 book Eskimo Art of Manno's celebrated sculpture of a bear looking at its reflection in the ice, part of the Eccles Collection at the time and now in the National Gallery Collection in Ottawa, Canada. It was an image that was to haunt him, its quality a mark of the kind of work he was now to seek with an ever-increasing determination to add to his always perceptive aesthetic judgement.
Meanwhile the nearest he could immediately get to owning this piece, or something that would remind him of it formally, was the delightful small soapstone piece by George Kopak Tayarak of Polar Bear Reflection." (187)
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