DAVIE ATCHEALAK (1947-2006) PANNIRTUQ (PANGNIRTUNG) / IQALUIT (FROBISHER BAY)
signed, "DAVIE ATCHEALAK".
ESTIMATE: $5,000 — $8,000
Further images
Few carvers can capture the energetic movement and form of the human figure like Davie Atchealak, rightly heralded as one of the greatest sculptors to come out of southern Baffin Island. He is renowned for his depictions of dancing polar bears but also for his dynamic, muscular drum dancers, including this beautiful example. Here, the Drum Dancer may as well be alive in front of us, balanced on one foot and chest puffed out in a proud song. Atchealak’s handling of the stone has resulted in a lively life model, one that defies the seemingly immutable nature of the material itself.
References: For works by Atchealak see Ingo Hessel, Inuit Art: An Introduction, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / New York: Harry Abrams / London: British Museum Press, 1998), pl. 74, p. 95; Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2006), cat. 29, p. 27, and cat. 147, p. 174; and Harold Seidelman & James Turner, The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 1993), fig. 32, p. 55.
Provenance
Private Collection, Toronto.Join Our Mailing List
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