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LUCY QINNUAYUAK (1915-1982), Cape Dorset / Kinngait
BIRD AND FLOWER COMPOSITION
stonecut
1964, 36/50
19 x 25 in — 48.3 x 63.5 cm
Estimate $1,000-$1,500
Realised: $840
Price Includes Buyer's Premium
About artist/note:
"An image of birds and flowers in a near abstract composition; a burst of animal and vegetal energy and freedom. Undoubtedly these are birds of magic, of mysticism"
Patrick Furneaux, Leo Rosshandler, Arts of the Eskimo: Prints, Signum Press, Montreal, 1974, page 86