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May 18th 2024
2 paintings will be for sale at Gardners (and via Mutualart
Bidding will start on Friday, May 24th at 12:00 PM.
"Untitled: Blue Wolf Riding Two-Headed White Wolf"
"Untitled: Wolf Dancer"
May 17th 2024
This is the 2nd of the "Glen Ness" sculptures added to the album.
38 images of 22 (!) sculptures were added to the Sculptures page to be described and documented. They will be posted on our socials one by one as we progress. Unfortunately we haven´t got much details, so maybe people can help out! Have you seen these, or do you own one or more, let us know.
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Untitled (Feathered Mask)
No date, no dimensions
Materials: stone, bone, inlay, metal, hair, feathers
This mask contains the full works of Floyd Kuptana´s key elements on display. There is no symmetry whatsoever, and I am actually surprised he place some elements in the middle of the face ..... a red inlay circle with 2 metal pins, and one on the chin, it also has a remarkable nose, an element Floyd often not includes or only with some minor line----
For Floyd Kuptana - Artist #projectfloydkuptana #floydkuptana #inuitart Glen Ness
May 10th 2024
38 images of 22 (!) sculptures were added to the Sculptures page to be described and documented. They will be posted on our socials one by one as we progress.
Unfortunately we haven´t got much details, so maybe people can help out! Have you seen these, or do you own one or more, let us know.
The first sculpture is a little brown dancing figure (shaman?) with a bear/wolf head. The figure is dressed, with shoes, pants and a coat and dances upright, arms in the air, as we have seen so many times in Floyd´s sculptures ánd paintings!
Title: Untitled (Dancing bear shaman)
No date
Dimensions: unknown
Keywords:
bear shaman
dancing
stone & inlay
coat (buttons in front, padding on back)
Enhanced with Topaz AI
May 10th 2024
3 paintings were SOLD at auction on Waddingtons & via Mutualart
UNTITLED (WHITE WOLF)
UNTITLED (TWO-HEADED WOLF)
UNTITLED (Sea Monsters)
April 30 2024
SOLD via GARDNERS for cad 2500
EXHIBITED FLOYD KUPTANA PAINTING
"Untitled: Rabbit Dancer
Shared with us via @sqrrl_, bought in a thrift shop in Montreal.
Check the details on the Paintings page
April 24, 2024
3 new paintings became for sale via Artic Fine Arts, and 2 were sold recently
Note: to our knowledge Floyd Kuptana only started painting in 2010. Any collaging was done during his time working at/with Gallery Arcturus
See the For Sale page for more details, links and images.
April 4th 2024
Some changes to the Museum & Galleries overview were made:
There is a new exhibition showcasing 2 sculptures by Floyd at the Museum Cerny, Contemporary Circumpolar Art
Febrary 3rd - April 20th 2024
Shamans - Between the Worlds Mediators between the human and spiritual worlds appear in various forms.
Floyd Kuptana
Title: Spirit Being, 2001
Paulatuk, Northwest Territories, Canada
Steatite, metal, antler
H43 x L40 x T29 cm
Provenance: Maslak-Macleod Gallery
FLoyd Kuptana
Shaman Dancing on the Moon, 2007
Paulatuk, Northwest Territories/Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stone, metal, antler
H48 x W45 x 25D cm
Provenance: John Bohm Montreal, QC
April 12, 2024
3 extra paintings will be on auction at Waddingtons & via Mutualart
Sale Date: Apr 13, 2024 - Apr 18, 2024
See the For Sale page for more details and images.
UNTITLED (BLUE RIDER
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS BOARD
Painting 12 x 14 in — 30.5 x 35.6 cm
Signed
Sale Date: Apr 13, 2024 - Apr 18, 2024UNTITLED (BUFFALO MAN
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS Painting
76.2 x 61 x 2 cm 30 x 24
SignedUNTITLED (BIRD IN FLIGHT
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
Painting
20 x 24 in — 50.8 x 61 cm
Signed
Added: 12.4.2024
April 1st 2024
Many might have seen the video with Patricia Feheley talking about a very large mask by Floyd.
This was actually part of the (virtual/online) exhibition Art Toronto 2020 at Feheley Fine Arts
The event was added to the Museum & Galleries overview, but with a couple enhanced stills from the video! I used the tool Topaz Photo AI for that.
Check it out here!
Bear-Man Shaman Mask, 2011
Brazilian soapstine, metal, antler
34 x 19 x 10 in.
(86.4 x 48.3 x 25.4 cm)
This pieces was also in the travelling exhibition:
"Changing Hands"
ART WITHOUT RESERVATION 3
Jun 26, 2012–August 16, 2014
Travelling exhibition overview images
30.3.204
This remarkable sculpture was this week on auction via WADDINGTONS WEST & MutualArt
(Price Realised: $9,840 Includes Buyer's Premium)
That is by far the highest price at a Waddingtons auction for a Floyd. 149 items since Februari 2008
TRANSFORMING SHAMAN, 2000
stone, steel, and antler
signed and dated
10 x 17 x 8.5 in — 25.4 x 21.6 x 43.2 cm
Auction Date: March 28, 2024
Estimate: $1,000-$2,000
March 27 2024
With the following 2 paintings that will be on auction soon, the total number of items by Floyd that we have been abled to track is: 48
25 Sculptures & 23 paintings!
Check all items for sale or on auction (as fas as we know)
ON AUCTION via Gardners & Mutualart
Untitled: Red Wolf
Sale Date: Apr 05, 2024 - Apr 15, 2024ON AUCTION via Gardners & Mutualart
Untitled: Double-Headed Bird
Sale Date: Apr 05, 2024 - Apr 15, 2024
25.3. 2024
Just came on auction Till March 27 2024, 5:00 PM CET
Inuit Carving by the late Floyd Kuptana (1964-2021), Paulatuuq (Paulatuk) Inuvialuit Settlement Region, NT
Check out the For Sale & On Auction page for more images, and extra info!
22.3.2024
FOR SALE at GARDNERS
Bidding will start on Friday, April 19th at 12:00 PM.
EXHIBITED FLOYD KUPTANA PAINTING
Large scale acrylic on canvas depicting a dancing wolf, white owl and red rabbit, signed lower right, 1.47m x 73.7cm (58 x 29in); note the canvas is affixed to a wood stretcher but unframed; Provenance: Toronto collection, acquired directly from the artist; exhibited at Tane Art Gallery, (29 November - 29 December, 2020), Concord, Ontario, pamphlet from the show included with this lot; Floyd Kuptana, Inuvialuit Canadian artist, 1964-2021, works of this size by the artist seldom appear for sale
Added: 21.3.2024
20. 3 2024
SOLD via MutualArt
On Auction Mar 01, 2024 - Mar 11, 2024 Mutualart
Untitled: Eagleacrylic on canvas
Painting
58.4 x 38.1cm (23 x 15in)
Estimate $400-$500
Added: 1.3.2024SOLD on auction via Gardners & MutualArt
This lot was sold for $1927.
Bidding will start on Friday, March 8th at 12:00 PM.
"Untitled: Dancing Red Wolf", signed lower middle,
20. 3 2024
On Auction via Gardners Listed as a "EXHIBITED FLOYD KUPTANA PAINTING"
This lot was sold for $1151.
Large scale acrylic on textured canvas depicting a face, signed lower left, 72.4 x 50.8cm (28 1/2 x 20in); ...Exhibited: Tane Art Gallery, Toronto, 2020, pamphlet from the show included with this lot; Floyd Kuptana, Canadian, 1964-2021
More info: Check the For Sale Page
16.3.204
FOR SALE on auction via WADDINGTONS WEST & MutualArt
This lot is located in Vancouver
TRANSFORMING SHAMAN, 2000
stone, steel, and antler
signed and dated
10 x 17 x 8.5 in — 25.4 x 21.6 x 43.2 cm
Auction Date: March 28, 2024
Estimate: $1,000-$2,000
It has been two years since some tiny carvings by Floyd came for auction at Waddingtons. And it has been more than 3 years since anything of decent size was offered up for auction.
With this amazing sculpture being almost 50 cm long and 25 cm high, it is really heavy. At least that’s what the Waddingtons employee told me, after they lifted it to look underneath, on my request. They did not mention a date or a signature in the lot on the website. It said 2000 by Floyd Kuptana, Paulatuk. Hopefully they will add an extra image of it, and add the information to the lot.
Trying to describe all there is to see, is not an easy task!
I am counting 6 eyes, 3 faces, 3 mouths. It maybe part walrus, part shaman, part bird. Hence the title “Transforming Shaman”
The main part is lying on it’s back, with arms and hands holding shaman’s tools (drum stick and some sort of hammer?).
The body also has 2 fins. From the back, it looks like a bird with 2 wings, but it also has a scary but smiling face, 2 fangs, 3 teeth and the mandatory bone plug below the mouth. (The other 2 faces also have a bone plug, but above the mouth.)
The second face is looking up, with a fearful expression, with bulky eyeballs popping out and an open mouth (9 teeth)
On the opposite side of the sculpture, a very remarkable head (bear?) is looking forward, with one big centralized eye, a small mouth, only 3 teeth, a bone plug, 2 animal ears, and an impressive black mohawk on top of the head, plus -how odd- an extra eyeball, perched on a stick, sprouting from the back of the head like a surreal antenna.
16.3 2024
FOR SALE VIA Mutuallart
Untitled: Double-Headed Dancing Wolf and Face
Check the For Sale page!FOR SALE on auction via MutualArt
11.3.2024
Found last week on a weird webpage which apparently collected all kind of items signed by any "Floyd" , I found this unusual painting apparently by Floyd Kuptana, titled:
"Wendigo"
The page has this text: "By Artist Floyd Kuptana (1964 -). This is an original native Canadian oil painting. It is signed by contemporary Innu artist Floyd Kuptana. The art is titled "Wendigo" and it dates to circa 2017. The wendigo is part of the traditional belief system of a number of Algonquin-speaking peoples, including the Ojibwe, the Saulteaux, the Cree, the Naskapi, and the Innu."
It must have been listed on Ebay, as the watermark states, and the accompanying text:
"... sale since Monday, January 6, 2020.
This item is in the category "Art\Paintings". The seller is "danog-123" and is located in Blackstock, ON. This item can be shipped worldwide.
Size: Medium (up to 36in.: Signed Style: Abstract Listed By: Dealer or Reseller Painting Surface: Canvas Medium: Oil Features: Framed
Some of the texts are not correct. Floyd was not Innu, and the painting is obviously not framed, but hanging or standing agains some wired wall.
The painting is wild!
Signed with: Floyd Kuptana (only the 2nd painting signed with his full first name I have ever seen so far)
And the only one with the title on the front... but maybe there have been more, Ed Drass ?
#projectfloydkuptana #floydkuptana #wendigo #inuitart For Floyd Kuptana - Artist
8.3.2024 SOLD
UNTITLED (CREATURES OF THE NIGHT)
UNTITLED (YOUNG WOMAN AND A MASK)
UNTITLED (TWO HEADED WOLF)
(more info on the Paintings Page!
1.3.2024
SOLD
On Auction for FIrst Arts via Liveauctioneers & Mutualart
Maskette on Base, 2000s
stone and red inlay, 7.75 x 4.5 x 2.25 (19.7 x 11.4 x 5.7 cm) unsigned. for cad 950.- (Moved to Sculptures page)FOUR paintings (see below!) will be on auction soon via Waddingtons, also listed on Mutualart.
Mar 01, 2024 - Mar 11, 2024
Untitled: Eagle
Mar 02, 2024 - Mar 07, 2024
UNTITLED (CREATURES OF THE NIGHT)
UNTITLED (YOUNG WOMAN AND A MASK)
UNTITLED (TWO HEADED WOLF)
(more info on For Sale page!)
28.2.224
SOLD, these two paintings were on Auction at Gardners via Mutuatart
Untitled: Riding Two-Headed Wolf
Sale Date: Feb 16, 2024 - Feb 26, 2024
Lot 4311 (sold for ca$1250)Untitled: Animals
Sale Date: Feb 16, 2024 - Feb 26, 2024 Lot 4265 (sold for ca$2950!)
26.2.224
One less sculpture available by Floyd this week... In fact the only sculpture by Floyd Kuptana available for sale, on the European continent, is now sold, via the Art Inuit Paris gallery!
Now added to the Sculpture pages
Totals unique works for sale/on auction:44
Sculptures: 24
Paintings: 20 ( Overview)
Note: There are at least 24 sculptures available through Native Art Traders, Eliot Waldman in Skokie, Illinois, United States. These sculptures are not currently listed on his website but can be found on the Museum & Galleries page
Greetings,
You are invited to watch the recording of our recent webinar on Floyd Kuptana's works in Museums & Galleries from 1993 to 2024. This webinar was held on February 14th, 2024, the day Floyd would have turned 60 years old.
In this webinar, you will discover:
- The latest timeline overview of Floyd's works in Museums & Galleries worldwide, updated with new and fascinating finds
- The exhibitions and events at Gallery Arcturus, where you can see 24 stunning sculptures by Floyd in this public art gallery in Toronto
- The collection of 6 extraordinary pieces by Floyd at the Museum Cerny Contemporary Circumpolar Art in Bern, Switzerland, and how they are showcased in various exhibitions
- The insights and stories from the people who have worked with Floyd and studied his paintings and sculptures
The webinar features the following speakers:
- Guus van den Brekel (Inuit Art Portal), who made introductions and presented the timeline
- Ed Drass, who talked about Gallery Arcturus
- Martha Cerny (curator and director of Museum Cerny), who explained the Museum Cerny collection
- Jean Paul Albert, who worked with Floyd from the first day he came to Toronto
- Emil Simon (Gallery owner, Wellington Gallery online)
- Richard D. Mohr (author of several articles about Floyd’s work.
The webinar recording is available on YouTube [here].
The presented slides: "Floyd Kuptana in Museums & Galleries 1993 - 2024"
If you have any questions or want to participate in this project, please feel free to contact us at inuitartportal@gmail.com.
We hope you enjoy this webinar and appreciate Floyd's unique and visionary art.
Guus van den Brekel & Ed Drass, 16.2.2024
11. 2.2024
On Auction for FIrst Arts via Liveauctioneers
Maskette on Base, 2000s
Feb 29, 2024 8:00 PM CET
stone and red inlay, 7.75 x 4.5 x 2.25 (19.7 x 11.4 x 5.7 cm) unsigned.
Provenance: A Toronto Collection
Added: 11.2.2024
Check the "For Sale & On Auction" page for more images, links and details
6. 2.2024
Via Waddingtons the following paintings are on auction between Febr. 2nd and Febr. 8th
Remarkable is the painting of the almost iconic sculpture "Ball Room Dancer" from 2005 that was on the cover of IAQ Spring 2008 23-1 (Check it out on the His Life page)
It is very unusual to see a painting of one of his sculptures, by Floyd himself. I am not aware of any other.
According to the info from Waddington Discovery Art department, it comes from a person who knew Floyd personally, adn regularly bought his paintings. Floyd was then living in an apartment in the Parliament St. area n Toronto. There is no date given, but estimated to be no more than maybe 5 years old.UNTITLED (RED WOLF)
ACRYLIC ON BOARD; SIGNED VERTICALLY LEFT
19.8 x 27.8 in — 50.3 x 70.6 cm
Auction Date: February 08, 2024
Check the "For Sale & On Auction" page for more images, links and details
27. 1.2024
Three of the 14 available sculptures at Inuit.net appear to be SOLD! So, still 11 left for sale, check them out here.
The For Sale & On Auction page is updated and the artworks are moved to the SCULPTURES page.
Currently there are 43 works by Floyd for sale or on auction that we know of. Sculptures: 23 Paintings: 20
Added: 27. 1.2024
Via Gardner Galleries this painting by Floyd Kuptana will be on offer for auction. Bidding will start on Friday, April 19th at 12:00 PM.
"Untitled: Rabbit Dancer", signed upper middle, acrylic on canvas, 61cm (24in) square; Provenance: Toronto collection, acquired directly from the artist; Floyd Kuptana, Inuvialuit Canadian artist, 1964-2021, no date.
Check more images & details on the page "For Sale & On Auction" https://www.floydkuptana.ca/for-sale-on-auction
24.1.2024
Added to the Sculptures page recently:
"Shaman", 1991. Brazilian soapstone and bone with stone and metal inlay. 5 x 5 x 5 in.
Photo: Robert W. Switzer.
See larger images and more details: Sculptures page
Included in No. 12 THE OUTSIDER End of page 7.
See the article here: His Life
Floyd Kuptana (Canadian, b. 1964), Shaman, 1991. Brazilian soapstone and bone with stone and metal inlay. 5 x 5 x 5 in.
Photo: Robert W. Switzer.
Added: January 9th 2024
16. 1.2024
Via Gardner Galleries ánd MutualArt TWO paintings with be on offer for auction. Bidding will start on Friday, January 26th at 12:00 PM.
Large scale acrylic on board depicting a running rabbit, signed left side, 61 x 91.4cm (24 x 36in) and
Acrylic portrait painting on wood panel, signed left side, 81.3 x 56.5cm (32 x 22 1/4in)
Check more images & details on the page "For Sale & On Auction"
Added: 16.1.2024
14.01.2024
Isn´t this a pretty sight?
Earlier I posted that this piece by Floyd Kuptana at Inuit.net @inuitarteskimoart was sold, because it was no longer listed and did not turn up in the site search. But, now it´s back, maybe a glitch in the website software.
So, it is still for sale.
#projectfloydkuptana #floydkuptana #artinuit #inuitart #inuitnet #aboriginart
Check out more detail at the Sculptures Pages at https://floydkuptana.ca
There are still 13 more sculptures by Floyd for sale at Inuit.net!
11.01.2024
Another exhibition was added to the #projectfloydkuptana website https://floydkuptana.ca in the overview of all exhibitions on the Museums and Galleries page, https://sites.google.com/.../floydku.../museums-galleries...
A special thanks to Lou Jungheim and Richard D. Mohr, for sharing info and knowledge of the 2016 annual meeting of the Inuit Art Society ánd the exhibition!
The 2016 Annual Meeting of the Inuit Art Society was held October 28-30th 2016 at the Kenosha Public Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In addition, the museum held a concurrent exhibition of Inuit art provided by IAS members. That exhibit continued through the end of January 2017.
Michael Foor-Pessin along with society members Lou Jungheim, Thalia Nicas and Richard Mohr, published the exhibition catalog, “Tunnganarniq: Sharing Our Inuit Art Treasure.”
(The images of the exhibition were taken by Cindy Carlsson www.VacationExploration.net)
On display were 4 pieces by Floyd Kuptana:
“Father and Son” c. 2002, stone, copper, bone, iron, 19.5” x 9.5” x 4.5”. (in the catalogue)
(This piece was also in a 2004 exhibition April 17th - May 6th 2004, Maslak McLeod Gallery, and on the cover of the SLATE Art Guide April, 2004 ) https://www.slateartguide.com/covers/2004“Drum Dancer,”or "Drummer" c. 1999, stone, 19” x 7” x 6” (in the catalogue)
This piece was subject of a talk by Donna Hoover Olsen during the IAS virtual meeting in March 2023 about "Shaman and Shamanism" https://www.inuitartsociety.org/shamans-and-shamanism/
See also the recent post on Facebook!"Bobbing Walrus Transformation" Town: Paulatuk/Toronto, Year: 2008, H: 11" W: 11" D: 7"
(not in the catalogue, identified from exhibition photo via the Sold page of Native Art Traders, Eliot Waldman
https://www.nativearttraders.com/Unidentified piece: a large head with big open mouth, on a stand. I háve seen it before, but can´t recall where. Maybe you know more about it? (not in the catalogue)
#floydkuptana #artinuit #inuitart #inuitartsociety For Floyd Kuptana - Artist
As this exhibition was held in the Kenosha Public Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, it therefor also falls under the category of #publicinuitart #kenoshapublicmuseum Kenosha Public Museum and when I will receive the mentioned catalogue, I will add the items to the Public Inuit Art Map & Wall!
(The images were enhanced with Topaz Photo AI #topazphotoai)https://sites.google.com/.../floydku.../museums-galleries...
01.01.2024
Best wishes for all in 2024 and beyond!
2024 will be the year where the project site collection of works by Floyd Kuptana will grow. It is great to start the year with the sharing of this painting by @circa1856 Craig Gamache! Thank you very much!
The Public Inuit Art Map will be continued… there are at least 500(!) items still to be added!
30.12.2023
Added to "His Life":
Floyd Kuptana Show-'n'-Tell" by Richard D. Mohr
Talk by Richard D. Mohr about Floyd Kuptana. A five minute show-’n’-tell plus in-memorium for Floyd presented to the Inuit Art Society as a Zoom (June 13th 2021), two weeks after Floyd died on May 27th 2021.
See "His Life" for the video.
27.12.2023
@modvintagefinds 338 w Found on Instagram. details mask: no date, signture?, size?
Floyd Kuptana mini mask as per the giant mask commissioned by Adrienne Clarkson for Rideau Hall. Personal collection. NFS. #inuitart #floydkuptana
What about the commissioned work? How to find info on that?
Added: December 27th 2023
23.12.2023
On Auction Januari 5th 2024 at Gardeners & Mutuarart
"Untitled: Wolf Riders", signed lower middle, acrylic on canvas, 30.5 x 69.9cm (12 x 27 1/2in); Provenance: Toronto collection, acquired directly from the artist; Floyd Kuptana, Inuvialuit Canadian artist, 1964-2021
Added> December 22 2023SOLD Inuit.net
Subject: Bird Spirit Dated:2004 - Signed
Artist: Kuptana, Floyd
Community: Paulatuk
Size: inches/cm 7" x 7" x 7" 17.8 cm x 17.8 cm x 17.8 cm
Added: July 25th 2023
Check out more detail at the Sculptures Pages.
22-12-2023
Floyd Kuptana usually signed his pieces in Roman script when there was space for it with his name, year and location Paulatuk, NW. In this case the appraisers must have made a mistake, because this is clearly a Floyd Kuptana, and not a Robert Kuptana.
This drum dancer from 2001, shows all signs of Floyd: the standing up figure, the shape of the feet, but mainly the head which could be an animal, person, shaman, spirit, dog or wolf.. Thát shape and the expression of it, is very recognisable. The one eye we can see, is cut out open, big and round. Add the string of probably horse hair. No, this is far away from sculptures Robert Kuptana usually makes. He makes mostly relatively small (in size) works of art. Unfortunately, we only were able to find one image of it. Maybe somebody with an Artnet subscription can share possible extra images, and maybe more details? Check Sculptures entry for more details!
This one is: 27.3 x 8.9 x 11.4 cm. (10.7 x 3.5 x 4.5 in.)
#projectfloydkuptana #floydkuptana #inuitart #artinuit For Floyd Kuptana - Artist artnet #robertkuptana #paulatuk
https://www.artnet.com/.../drum-dancer...
To be added to: "Floyd Kuptana : From Another World" https://floydkuptana.ca
Materials: stone, bone/antler, hair
KEYWORDS:
- drum dancer
- standing figure
- transformation
- head (animal, spirit, shaman?)
-eye (wide open)
- string of hair
20-12-2023
2 paintings were sold via Waddingtons December 14th. See realized prizes under the expand arrow.
ON AUCTION WADDINGTONS
UNTITLED (SAD EYES)
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS; SIGNED; INSCRIBED VERSO: FOR SHALOM, FLOYD
SOLD: Price Realised: $799.50
12 x 9 in — 30.5 x 22.9 cm
Auction Date: December 14, 2023
Estimate: $200-$250
Added: December 4th 2023
SOLD: Price Realised: $1,353
ON AUCTION WADDINGTONS
UNTITLED (TWO-HEADED FIDDLER PLAYER)
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS; SIGNED VERTICALLY RIGHT SIDE
28 x 22 in — 71.1 x 55.9 cm
Auction Date: December 14, 2023
Estimate: $400-$500
Added: December 4th 2023
13-12-2023
Guess what I received in the mail! Many thanks to Karel Stevens, the owner of Canuit, Inuit Art. They are the only Dutch shop/home gallery for Inuit art. Karel is actually the brother of Pierre Stevens, owner of Ukpik Inuit Art in Halifax, NS, Canada!)
“Spirit Faces” by Floyd Kuptana, 2004, 17 × 26 × 8cm, in the collection of the @wereldmuseum.leiden
10-12-2023
Summary of the Zoom meeting coming up... (I forgot to record it ...)
Today I visited the stand of Canuit at the "Zweedse Kerstmark" ("Swedish Christmas market) at the Suikerfabriek, Groningen, the Netherlands. They are the only Dutch shop/home gallery for Inuit art.
Karel Stevens (who is actually the brother of Pierre Stevens, owner of UKPIK Art in Halifax, NS, Canada.) told me he had óne sculpture by Floyd in the past. He had picked it up in the North in one of the Co-operatives (check location)
It was sold to a Ducth collector Hans van Berkel, who -in 2015- donated his entire collection to the Wereldmuseum in Leiden. Their online collection mentions indeed a sculpture titles "Spirit Faces" by Floyd Kuptana, 2004, 17 × 26 × 8cm, but unfortunately no images due to copyright restrictions.
8-12-2023
Site is now open "Under Review"
We are still working on it....
Join us in a Zoom Meeting TODAY December 8th!
Hi there,
It is with great pleasure that we can announce "Floyd Kuptana : From Another World" -- a website dedicated to the many works by Floyd
-- It will be made public!
Join us in this live online session on Friday December 8th 2023 to see more of the site ... including many beautiful sculptures by Floyd from his long career carving, painting and even working in pastel and collage.
Time: 16:00 (4pm Eastern Standard Time) -- ONLINE EVENT: Link to the online event: ZOOM
#projectfloydkuptana is an initiative by Inuit Art Portal, with help and support from Gallery Arcturus, Toronto.
The goal of the project is to ensure Floyd Kuptana will be known by a larger audience, for now and in the future, gathering and sharing his works in one place -- with an initial focus on his sculptures.
Guus van den Brekel (@InuitArtPortal) and Ed Drass(@GalleryArcturus) will introduce the project, the progress so far and how it may evolve in the future.
Get an early peek at: https://floydkuptana.ca
Please forward this invite to anyone who might like it!
Hope to see you on Friday, December 8th!
Guus van den Brekel
Email: inuitartportal@gmail.com.
https://www.instagram.com/inuitartportal/
04-12-2023
Two upcoming paintings via Waddingtons:
UNTITLED (SAD EYES) & UNTITLED (TWO-HEADED FIDDLER PLAYER)
Please check out the "For Sale & On Auction" page
Added December 2nd 2023
"Transformation Man"
No date. Stone, antler, metal 18" x 16" x 5" — 45.7 x 40.6 x 12.7 cm.
Images and info found at ELCA London Gallery , Waddingtons and Northerncollectables Inuit Art.
See the Sculptures page. See extra images and info via de EXPAND ARROW!
01-12-2023
The painting "Untitled, (WOMAN WITH GREY HAIR) is for sale via Arctic Fine Arts.
acrylic on canvas. Floyd Kuptana, 1964 - 2021. Paulatuk (Paulatuuq)
30 X 40.5 inches - sight
32 x 42.5 inches - framed
Please check out the "For Sale & On Auction" page
27-11-2023
1 painting will be on auction via MutualArts ánd Gardners on December 8th.
FOR SALE , GARDNERS, starting December 8th (
ALSO VIA MUTUALART!
Please check out the "For Sale & On Auction" page!
"Untitled: Two-Headed Wolf", signed left side, acrylic on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6cm (20 x 16in); Provenance: Toronto collection, acquired directly from the artist; Floyd Kuptana, Inuvialuit Canadian artist, 1964-2021
Added: Nov. 27 2023
26-11-2023
Site is now open "Under Review"
We are still working on it....
Join us in a Zoom Meeting December 8th!
Hi there,
It is with great pleasure that we can announce "Floyd Kuptana : From Another World" -- a website dedicated to the many works by Floyd
-- It will be made public!
Join us in this live online session on Friday December 8th 2023 to see more of the site ... including many beautiful sculptures by Floyd from his long career carving, painting and even working in pastel and collage.
Time: 16:00 (4pm Eastern Standard Time) -- ONLINE EVENT: Link to the online event: ZOOM
#projectfloydkuptana is an initiative by Inuit Art Portal, with help and support from Gallery Arcturus, Toronto.
The goal of the project is to ensure Floyd Kuptana will be known by a larger audience, for now and in the future, gathering and sharing his works in one place -- with an initial focus on his sculptures.
Guus van den Brekel (@InuitArtPortal) and Ed Drass(@GalleryArcturus) will introduce the project, the progress so far and how it may evolve in the future.
Get an early peek at: https://floydkuptana.ca
Please forward this invite to anyone who might like it!
Hope to see you on Friday, December 8th!
Guus van den Brekel
Email: inuitartportal@gmail.com.
https://www.instagram.com/inuitartportal/
26-11-2023
1 painting sold via Ebay:
(EBAY, Arctic Fine Arts)
INUKSHUK FLOYD KUPTANA ORIGINAL ACYRYLIC PAINTING
23-11-2023
List of sculptures travelling exhibition "Inuit Sculpture Now"
8. Floyd Kuptana
Starving Bear 2001
Brazilian soapstone and bone
21.7 x 47.1 x 12.6
Collection of Dr. Peter K. Lewin
17-11-2023
1 sculpture sold via Galerie AMF:
UNTITLED
MIXED MEDIA (brown stone, bone, blue bead)
SCULPTURE, RAISED ON A STONE BASE
9 ins x 6.8 ins x 2.5 ins; 22.9 cms x 17.3 cms x 6.4 cms
(Previously sold via Waddingtons )
13-11-2023
Three exhibitions added:
April 13 - May 4, 2018
FEROCIOUS JOY
Artists Together -- Floyd Kuptana and 'the woman' (aka deborah harris)March 21 - April 21, 2012
Disintegrating : moving towards and away from coherence
Employing works from the permanent collection, by artists - Peter Chung, Paul Saarl, Dan Walsh, Andrea Maguire, FLOYD KUPTANA, William Caldwell, Carrie Geary-Martin, Ed DrassApril 17th - May 6th 2004
"Floyd Kuptana" at Maslak McLeod Gallery
Shown here: Front Page Issue April 2004 Slate Art Guide
07-11-2023
A mask by Floyd is shown on the his profile page at Galerie Images Boréales . Unfortunately, we don´t know ány details, so if you know more about it, or you have more images of it, please let us know!
It is a typical Floyd Kuptana mask, probably called "Shaman Transformation", with a few characteristic Floyd elements:
skull-shaped mask on a stand
two animal ears (open)
one eye-socket empty
one eye-ball bulking out
long slim nose
mouth with double fangs ánd teeth
29-10-2023
December 1st we will go public, at least with several pages of this website.
"Home", "About", "For Sale & On Auction", "Blog" and "Museums & Galleries" will be available for all to see.
We are thinking about a suitable "opening event".
26-10-2023
Another 2 paintings came available via MutualArt, which makes the total on auction at Mutualart right now to FOUR!
https://www.mutualart.com/.../054F8416B.../artworks-for-sale?
Black Rider & Moon Drummer..
22-10-2023
Upcoming auction at Waddington's will start on 26 October 2023
UNTITLED (RED WOLF MUSICIAN)
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS; SIGNED VERTICAL RIGHT SIDE
27.5 x 19.8 in — 69.9 x 50.3 cm
Auction Date: October 26, 2023
Estimate: $400-$600The listing on Craigslist for the swimming bear disappeared, so I guess it´s sold. It will be moved to the Sculptures page overview
20-10-2023
Upcoming auction at Mutualart, will start on Friday, october27th 2023
Untitled: Dancing Wolf with Two Heads
acrylic on canvas
Painting, 66 x 35.6; Signed. Provenance
Sale Date Oct 27, 2023 - Nov 06, 2023
19-10-2023
Upcoming auction at Gardners, will start on Friday, November 17th 2023
"Untitled: Wolf Riding Rabbit", signed upper left side, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24in; Provenance: Toronto collection, acquired directly from the artist; Floyd Kuptana, Inuvialuit Canadian artist, 1964-2021
18-10-2023
Reordering Past exhibitions & extending them, based on listing of leaflet Maslak McLeod Gallery.
Some new "old events" to track down!
17-10-2023
Recovered old Website of Museum of Inuit Art with 3 sculptures of Floyd.
13-10-2023
Sold for 730 CAD$ via MutualArt & Gardners
11-10-2023
To be added: 3 sculptures sold in the past via Art Inuit
23-09-2023
Found Floyd Kuptana's first profile page from Inuit Art Alive (Now Inuit Art Foundation) with a whole range of early sculpture we had not seen before or we only had screenshot or ads of. Long live Wayback Machine
15-09-2023
Added a button "Give Feedback" for testing.
It connects to a Comments form
10-09-2023
Title change : "Floyd Kuptana : From Another World" (courtesy of Deborah, after the exhibition with the same name in 2022
03-09-2023
Painting "Untitled: Flying Owl" will be on auction via Waddingtons, Sep 15, 2023 - Sep 25, 2023
02-09-2023
Sedna. Myth and Change in the Arctic
Special exhibition extended until March 17, 2024 due to public success
See: Museums & Galleries for more info
3 paintings sold via Waddingtons
SOLD
WADDINGTONS
FLOYD KUPTANA (CANADIAN, 1964-2021)
UNTITLED (WOLF DRUMMER)
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS; SIGNED VERTICALLY LEFT SIDE
24 x 20 in — 61 x 50.8 cm
Auction Date: August 31, 2023
Estimate: $400-$600
Price Realised: $861
Added: 23.8.2023
SOLD WADDINGTONS
FLOYD KUPTANA (CANADIAN, 1964-2021)
UNTITLED (WHITE WOLF WITH FRIENDS)
ACRYLIC ON HEAVY PAPER; SIGNED
23.5 x 17.5 in — 59.7 x 44.5 cm
Auction Date: August 31, 2023
Estimate: $400-$500
Price Realised: $922.50
Added: 23.8.2023
SOLD
WADDINGTONS
FLOYD KUPTANA (CANADIAN, 1964-2021)
UNTITLED (WOLF DRUMMER)
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS; SIGNED VERTICALLY LEFT SIDE
24 x 20 in — 61 x 50.8 cm
Auction Date: August 31, 2023
Estimate: $400-$600
Price Realised: $615
added: 23.8.2023
28-08-2023
Re-did the ToC on For Sale page in three columns, smaller, better overview
Added "Go To Top" buttons
26-08-2023
Making some items nót visible in the ToCs, so it looks neater
Discovery Maslak McLeod Gallery Exhibitions "Floyd Kuptana" in 2001 ánd 2008
Found extra items about Floyd in IAQ pdf archives
12-08-2023
Update "For Sale/On Auction"
Added 15 sculptures Sold via Visbids
Added 3 sculptures Sold via Worthpoint
Overall design
Cleaned up favicon
As favicon?
11-08-2023
Update "For Sale/On Auction"
Changed in alphabetical order
Added Table of Content
Placed the Overview on bottom of the page.
Added numbers of items for sale per vendor in title
Overall design
added Favicon for site (discuss)
added a page to list auction houses & galleries, shops for me to check for images of sold items etc.. (hidden from navigation)
10-08-2023
Update "For Sale/On Auction"
1 sculpture added via Galerie ELCA London. Not listed on their site (yet), contact the Galerie for more info.
1 sculpture for sale at Galerie AMF
1 SOLD sculpture added. Found at
Galerie Avtorov
Title "Sedna"
07-08-2023
Update "For Sale/On Auction"
9 sculptures for sale found on Native Art Traders site, 15 sold items
1 item for sale at UKPIK Inuit Art
06-08-2023
Update "For Sale/On Auction"
The items for sale are now presented per platform/vendor.
Indication of the number of sculptures and paintings in total was added.
A section "Private Collections" was added for sharing of works anonymously
04-08-2023
Update "For Sale/On Auction"
Today was the auction for a mask. It sold for 1000 ca$ via First Arts Premier
Another mask for sale Galerie Chariot was sold (price unknown)
https://www.galerielechariot.ca/floyd-kuptana-s-workThe same gallery has one piece left, a large work called the Dog Team… Soap Stone. Dimensions: 100cm x 30cm
Asking price: 6500 ca$