Lot 86
JOHN PANGNARK (1920-1980)
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Provenance:
Private collection, Edmonton, AB
Waddington’s, April 2008, lot 60, Toronto, ON
Collection of James Bisback & Jonny Kalisch, Shakespeare, ON
Literature:
“Memories of Eskimo Point 1967-1979” George Swinton, from Eskimo Point/Arviat, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1982, pg. 14
Note:
“He was doubtlessly the Brancusi of the North, with a rare feeling for abstraction and for the sheer beauty of curved and hard-edged shapes. He couldn’t put any of these thoughts into words, but he did what counts most: he made them into sculptures. These were more than mere objects for him; they were sensuous renderings of his sensibility for pure form, with a vague hint of subject matter without which the form had very little conscious meaning for him.”