ORIGINAL 1978 ALIBAK JOHANSEN (1921-2007) 'KAYAK FISHING OFF GREENLAND' PEN & INDIA INK PAINTING
This is a great piece. I bought this without knowing exactly what it was. I just figured it was an excellent original drawing of a kayaker in Greenland in 1978. Upon doing research I learned that it is an original work by important Danish artist Alibak Johansen. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biography below. This is an outstanding pen and india ink work on paper measuring 11 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches. Signed, dated, and located in pen lower right. The drawing is in outstanding as created condition. It has been taped at the top verso into an original matte. Ready for framing. Do your own research on the artist. His work does not come to market all that often and when you see it, most of the time it is a print. This is a 100% guaranteed original work. FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES!
For those not familiar with the artist his biography from an article about an exhibition of the artist at the Nuuk Art Museum reads: "Alibak began to draw while he was working in the weather station in Aasiaat, in the late 1940s. His drawings were then purchased by Danish colleagues in town, while other illustrations of comical everyday situations were printed as caricatures in a local newspaper. One day the town’s priest ventured to tell Alibak he had a talent for drawing and that he would gladly write to the authorities in Denmark on Alibak’s behalf, demanding for him to be sent to art school there. Unsure of what that actually meant for him, Alibak said yes to the priest. The application was eventually granted and he left for Denmark. During his education, Alibak discovered to be particularly skilled in capturing and rapidly reproducing people’s faces. In his publication, Alibak ’92, one can find several portraits from Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland. Quick sketches, drawn with a firm stroke. Facial traits, hair and the collar of clothes are drawn rapidly with a pencil or a ballpoint pen.
When Alibak came back to Greenland after his art education in Denmark, he started drawing his forefathers. He wanted to show their beautiful hair, which they would set by themselves, without the help of a hairdresser. Likewise it mattered to him to depict their functional work clothes. He said in an interview that he wanted to show the lower end of the anorak’s backside. It had to cover one’s back without letting the skin be exposed, for example when working bent forward. "
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