ELIZABETH NUTARAALUK, INUIT, Head, late 1980s
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ELIZABETH NUTARAALUK AULATJUT (1914-1998) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT)
Head, late 1980s
stone and antler, 4.75 x 3 x 1 in (12.1 x 7.6 x 2.5 cm)
unsigned.
Provenance
Private Collection, Santa Fe, NM.
Late career works by the renowned Arviat sculptor Elizabeth Nutaraaluk are notable for their rawness and expressionism. Especially astonishing are a series of mostly large, stark mask-like heads whose minimalist facial features consist of inlaid caribou antler. [1] This Head is perhaps the smallest of the series and fits nicely in one’s hand. And despite the rawness of the image, its small scale lends this remarkable work a sense of intimacy and, dare we say it, an austere beauty.1. See First Arts Auction, July 2020, Lot 41, and Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit, cat. 132.
References: For stylistically similar depictions of a single human face by Nutaraaluk see Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2006), cat. 132, p. 154; Walker's Auctions, Nov. 2016, Lot 190. For a monumental work of six stylistically similar faces, see First Arts, July 2020, Lot 41.
Head, late 1980s
stone and antler, 4.75 x 3 x 1 in (12.1 x 7.6 x 2.5 cm)
unsigned.
Provenance
Private Collection, Santa Fe, NM.
Late career works by the renowned Arviat sculptor Elizabeth Nutaraaluk are notable for their rawness and expressionism. Especially astonishing are a series of mostly large, stark mask-like heads whose minimalist facial features consist of inlaid caribou antler. [1] This Head is perhaps the smallest of the series and fits nicely in one’s hand. And despite the rawness of the image, its small scale lends this remarkable work a sense of intimacy and, dare we say it, an austere beauty.1. See First Arts Auction, July 2020, Lot 41, and Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit, cat. 132.
References: For stylistically similar depictions of a single human face by Nutaraaluk see Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2006), cat. 132, p. 154; Walker's Auctions, Nov. 2016, Lot 190. For a monumental work of six stylistically similar faces, see First Arts, July 2020, Lot 41.
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ELIZABETH NUTARAALUK, INUIT, Head, late 1980s
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