Description:

David Ruben Piqtoukun ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950), Paulatuk

SEVEN STONES, 1992

stone, signed in Roman; dated

Estimate: $3,000—5,000

    Provenance:
  • Images Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
    Private Collection, Toronto, ON
  • Dimensions:
  • without rocks 16 x 13 x 8 in — 40.6 x 33 x 20.3 cm
  • Artist Name:
  • David Ruben Piqtoukun ᑎᕕᑎ ᐱᑐᑯ ᕈᐱᐃᓐ (b. 1950)
  • Literature:
  • Harold Seidelman and James Turner, The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 1993), 169.
  • Medium:
  • stone
  • Notes:
  • The joy of hearing stories told by his mother and grandmother about shamanism and traditional beliefs influenced a young David Ruben Piqtoukun and has spawned images recurring throughout the artist's career. Images of flight appear throughout the oeuvres of Piqtoukun and his brother Abraham Anghik, and are said to originate in the supposed otherworldly travels of their grandfather, a reputed shaman. (1)

    Of the present work, Seven Stones, published in Harold Seidelman’s and James Turner’s The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture, it has been said “The shaman’s soul is leaving his body lying within a tent ring, Seven Stones representing the bondage to the human world. The stones have been used to hold down a tent. They may be used again to surround a final resting place.” (2)

    (1) Darlene Coward Wight, Between Two Worlds: David Ruben Piqtoukun (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Gallery of Art, 1996), 3.
    (2), Harold Seidelman and James Turner, The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993), 203, pl. 169.
  • Condition:
  • Overall very good condition. Minor losses around junction of upper and lower figures, minute imperfections. Please contact the specialist for further condition information.

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