Floe Edge, Winter
36.79 cms x 104.8 cms (14.49 ins x 41.26 ins)
2009, 10/50
printed in 2009
Lot offered for sale by Waddington's, Toronto at the auction event "Inuit Art Auction" held on Tue, May 30, 2017.
Lot 104
Lot 104
Estimate: CAD $1,000 - $1,500
Sale price withheld by the Auction house
Sale price withheld by the Auction house
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Literature:
Sandra Dyck, Itee Pootoogook: Drawing on Photographs, Inuit Art Quarterly, Winter 2016, page 30
Notes:
Itee began his career carving, taking to drawing professionally in the 1980's. He excelled at portraying the vast and sometimes brutal landscapes of the Arctic. His use of colour and meticulous lines elevated his subjects. Itee drew from photographs, a technique not typically encouraged by the Kinngait Co-op. "The intense demand for Pootoogook's drawings in the final years of his life signaled evolving attitudes towards what art produced in Kinngait could and should be."
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