1979 Inuit Eskimo Baker Lake Art POLAR BEAR Carving Jimmy Taipanak 1919-2000

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1979 Inuit Eskimo Baker Lake Art POLAR BEAR Carving Jimmy Taipanak 1919-2000:
$1023.43

High gallery prices for this desirable Baker Lake artist

Museum quality sculpture - a primitive Masterpiece

Powerful folk naive Inuit Eskimo art
Polar Bear - head tilted slightly and looking upwards

Accompanied by rare and original SANAVIK CO-OP BAKER LAKE tag
4445
Jimmy Taipanak

Co-op sticker on the bottom reads
JIMMY TAIPANAK
S4445 - this number matches rare Co-op tag
79 - date

Disc number: E4-31
Alternate names include James Taipanak, Taipana Taipanak, Taippanna Taipanak, Tiepanak Taipanak & Jimmy Taipanak
Specialized in wall hangings and sculpture |
Community: Qamani\' tuaq

Exhibitions:
Keewatin District Wallhangings 1979 -Kaiser House Gallery
Mythic Image - Ancestral Spirits Gallery
Major/Minor - Marion Scott Gallery
Miniaturen - Inuit Galerie

Collected by
Winnipeg Art Gallery

Good condition - stone
With natural mineral marks, lines (minor natural loss on bottom mineral line), natural rough areas and file marks retained throughout
Stands fine but rocks slightly if bumped
White numbered Co-op sticker with artist\'s name/date, old style English only Canada Certified Eskimo art sticker, incised numbers/date and old Co-op tag tape remains on bottom
Approx: 2 7/8 inches high x 6 1/2 long x 2 wide

Selections from the excellent Canadian Government booklet
Canadian Inuit Sculpture
Published under the authority of the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa 1992

Baker Lake is the only inland community in Canada’s Arctic. It is famous for its large, heavy and dynamic carvings of hunters and animals, fashioned from the hard Keewatin stone. Although essentially realistic in conception these works are not detailed but are more roughly conceived in broad curves and large masses with few fine details. Scenes of animal human transformations are also common in Baker Lake sculpture, as they are in the prints make in this community.
Although the generic term soapstone is commonly used, this is a bit misleading. Soapstone, a soft talc steatite, is not used nearly as much as the harder serpentine, serpentinite, siltstone, argillite, dolomite, quartz and other types.
Materials are often in short supply, and artists must travel great distances overland or by boat to quarry quantities of good quality stone.

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