Pitseolak Ashoona

PITSEOLAK ASHOONA (1904-1983), E7-1100, Cape Dorset ANCIENT ESKIMO DWELLING, stonecut and stencil, 1996, 20/50, Lined, trimmed, unframed, 17" x 26" - 43.2 x 66 cm. Note: "Many ancient Thule culture sites are found around Cape Dorset in the areas still used for camps. Pitseolak has used her fertile imagination to reconstruct the ruin of a stone house." from The Inuit Print, exh. cat., the National Museum of Man (Ottawa, ON), 1977, pp. 96, pl. 40

Lot # 004 Pitseolak Ashoona RCA 1904 - 1983 Canadian Indigenous First Bird of Spring lithograph signed and signed in syllabics, titled, editioned 22/31, dated 1975, inscribed "Dorset" and "Lithograph", embossed by the Canadian Eskimo Art Council and Cape Dorset's West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative and stamped with the Cape Dorset chop and on verso inscribed "51/75" 30 x 22 1/4 in 76.2 x 56.5cm Provenance: Private Collection, USA Estimate: $400 ~ $600 CAD Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

PITSEOLAK ASHOONA (1904-1983), E7-1100, Cape Dorset, Portfolio contains HOME FROM THE HUNT; NESTING BIRD; A FESTIVE PURSUIT; HIDE AND SEEK; SUMMER HOME; SNOW HOUSE OF MY YOUTH etching and aquatint unframed 15.25" (height) x 18.00" (width), 38.70 cm (height) x 45.70 cm (width), Est. $1000 / 2000

Lot # 003 Pitseolak Ashoona RCA 1904 - 1983 Canadian Indigenous Man Repairing Sledge #15 stonecut on paper signed, titled, editioned 39/50, dated 1964 and inscribed "15" 18 1/4 x 24 1/2 in 46.3 x 62.2cm Provenance: Private Collection, British Columbia Estimate: $1,000 ~ $1,500 CAD Preview at: Heffel Fine Art Auction House Vancouver

PITSEOLAK ASHOONA (1904-1983), E7-1100, Cape Dorset FOLIO OF 8 LITHOGRAPHS: TO RESCUE A DROWNING MAN, MIGRATION TOWARDS OUR SUMMER CAMP, SPRING BIRDS MOULTING, HURRY OF BIRDS, SPIRIT OF SUMMER CARIBOU, WALRUS AND NARWHAL, COOKING CARIBOU BY MOSS FIRE AND MY WHITE AMOUTIK stonecut 1983, 5/50 unframed 26.00" (height) x 20.00" (width), 66.00 cm (height) x 50.80 cm (width), Est. $800 / 1200