Spring Art & Design Auction
Sun, Apr 28, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 1061
Ruth Qaulluaryuk (Canada, b. 1932) Embroidery Textile Murre on Tundra Wall Hanging
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $10 |
| $200 | $25 |
| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
| $500,000 | $50,000 |
In very good condition. Approx. 40 in. H x 28 in. W Weight 1.5 lbs
Daughter of Luke Anguhadluq (see lot 67), Ruth Qaulluaryuk relocated to Qamani’tuaq in her late teens where, in addition to drawing, she monetized her skills as seamstress making handicrafts at the newly established craft centre. As she refined her craft, her works turned increasingly toward abstracted depictions of a familiar motif in Inuit art: the land. The present untitled wall hanging, a beautiful entanglement of texture and colour, bears witness to the dense and kaleidoscopic variety of the arctic landscape. The stolid grey ground of the present work is dramatically embroidered, almost in its entirety, in colours that are too variegated to name. In her decidedly different approach to the often seen portrayals of a more structured solemnity of the Arctic landscape,
Qaulluaryuk invented a completely new way of seeing the land around her. Her hangings can be considered rhapsodies on the theme of the Arctic landscape.
References: For a similar work, see Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum (Phoenix: Heard Museum/Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2006, p. 64. See also Darlene Coward Wight, Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art (Winnipeg Art Gallery/Douglas & McIntyre, 2012), cat. 95.
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Daughter of Luke Anguhadluq (see lot 67), Ruth Qaulluaryuk relocated to Qamani’tuaq in her late teens where, in addition to drawing, she monetized her skills as seamstress making handicrafts at the newly established craft centre. As she refined her craft, her works turned increasingly toward abstracted depictions of a familiar motif in Inuit art: the land. The present untitled wall hanging, a beautiful entanglement of texture and colour, bears witness to the dense and kaleidoscopic variety of the arctic landscape. The stolid grey ground of the present work is dramatically embroidered, almost in its entirety, in colours that are too variegated to name. In her decidedly different approach to the often seen portrayals of a more structured solemnity of the Arctic landscape,
Qaulluaryuk invented a completely new way of seeing the land around her. Her hangings can be considered rhapsodies on the theme of the Arctic landscape.
References: For a similar work, see Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum (Phoenix: Heard Museum/Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2006, p. 64. See also Darlene Coward Wight, Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art (Winnipeg Art Gallery/Douglas & McIntyre, 2012), cat. 95.
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