Pitseolak Niviaqsi _ Lot 08

Dorset Fine Arts

Title: Untitled

• Niviaqsi’s works are held in the permanent collections of multiple prominent institutions including the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg, MB, the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, QC and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, ON. In recognition of his work Niviaqsi was invested as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Dimensions: 19.6" x 25.5"

Medium: Coloured pencil and ink on paper

Date: 2013

Niviaqsi, was a carver and printmaker from Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU. Niviaqsi was renowned for his talents as a lithographer, transferring hundreds of drawings into prints at the Kinngait Studios and was credited in nearly every Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection from 1975 to 2011. Niviaqsi began his artistic career as a carver selling his sculptures out of the Kinngait Studios. He continued carving after he became an apprentice at the studios though he carved less frequently after 1991. Niviaqsi was a talented lithographer who was praised for his technical skill, becoming one of the first printmakers to learn lithography techniques through the Kinngait Studios. Niviaqsi was dutiful when reproducing prints to remain as loyal to the original drawings as possible.