Woman With Helping Human and Spirits – sculpture by Peter Sevoga

$295.00

Artist: Peter Sevoga
Region: Baker Lake/Qamani’tuag
Year: 1974
Size: 12″ x 10″ x 5-1/2″ (26.8 Lbs)
Material: Stone
Condition: Very good condition

Peter Sevoga is know for his bulky mid-1970’s sculptures featuring mothers and children or family groups huddled together.
This example of a woman surrounded by human and animal spirits is highly abstracted.
Mother and child as central figures, are surrounded by human and animal spirits.
The minimal and rough hewn style make this piece a contemplative addition to any collection.
PROVENANCE: First Arts auction: November 2025 (from a private collection in Canada)

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Description

Peter Sevoga

Peter Sevoga is a contemporary Inuit artist whose work spans both sculpture and printmaking. Across mediums, his art is marked by a confident graphic sensibility, using simplified forms and bold visual structure to create images that are immediately engaging and highly collectible.

In his stone sculptures, Sevoga focuses on clarity of silhouette and expressive character. Forms are reduced to their essentials, allowing posture, proportion, and surface to carry the visual impact. The result is work that feels approachable yet deliberate, with a strong physical presence that translates well to a wide range of display environments.

His prints extend this same visual language into two dimensions. Animals and figures are rendered with strong outlines, flattened space, and rhythmic composition, emphasizing recognizability and narrative suggestion over fine detail. This consistency across sculpture and prints gives Sevoga’s work a cohesive identity that appeals to both new and seasoned collectors.

Peter Sevoga’s art reflects a contemporary Inuit perspective that values directness, visual strength, and accessibility. Whether encountered as a carved object or a printed image, his work offers a bold and confident expression of northern subject matter, well suited to private collections, corporate settings, and curated group exhibitions.

All works are created by hand. Variations in stone, paper, and printing are a natural and valued part of each piece.

 

Additional information

Weight 14.25 kg
Dimensions 35 × 35 × 45 cm

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