Lot 92
JOHN KAVIK (1897-1993)
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“Crude but powerful” is how Bill Johnstone described this work by Kavik.
“Looking at the work (in the Johnstone Collection) as regional groups, it is hard not to detect a certain innate sympathy in Bill’s tastes towards the artists of the Keewatin/Western Hudson Bay communities – Arviat (Eskimo Point), Rankin Inlet, Whale Cove and Baker Lake – where artists like John Pangnark, John Tiktak, Peter Sevoga, Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, Joe Angaktaayuaq, John Kavik and one of Bill’s favourites George Arlook, wrestling with the often extremely hard-to-work local stone available to them, come up with artistic solutions of the most startling formal and powerfully expressive character.
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