Historic Inuit art collection fails to sell at Canadian auction
Print from 1959 Cape Dorset Print collection. Legend of the Blind Man and the Bear by Pootoogook. (Dorset Fine Arts)
Well that’s a shock.
Works from the Cape Dorset print collection are among the most well-known in the Canadian art world.
The annual collection began in 1959 and has been going strong ever since.
Early works, especially those from the first collections, have become some of the most sought-after by Inuit art collectors around the world.
Earlier this year, Canadian auction house Waddington’s announced that not one, but the entire collection of 1959 prints, would go up for sale. The value was estimated at $450,000.
However, the collection failed to meet the reserve price on auction night and so didn’t sell.
To read more about what happened, check out the story in Nunatsiaq Online
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