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Artworks
EVA TALOOKI ALIKTILUK (1927-1994) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT)
Mother and Child in a Beaded Amautiq, c. 1990-91stone, glass beads, felt, and thread, 4.5 x 3 x 3 in (11.4 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm)
signed, “EVA”.LOT 129
ESTIMATE: $1,200 — $1,800
PRICE REALIZED: $1,020.00Further images
More than any other Arviat sculptor, Eva Talooki used glass beads to embellish her stone and antler carvings. Mostly she fashioned simple strands to decorate her works (see Lot 42),...More than any other Arviat sculptor, Eva Talooki used glass beads to embellish her stone and antler carvings. Mostly she fashioned simple strands to decorate her works (see Lot 42), but occasionally she sheathed her figures in densely sewn beadwork garments. Here the artist fashioned a beadwork replica of a traditional Kivalliq Region beadwork amautiq, complete with fringe. Because the sculpture is relatively small and the beads relatively large, the effect is almost disorienting. It is almost as if Talooki has created a fetish-like doll invested with some sort of supernatural potency. It’s a fascinating and quite powerful little sculpture.
References: For a selection of fine works by the artist see Ingo Hessel, Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre / Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2006), cats. 151, 152. See the article by Dorothy Harley Eber, “Eva Talooki: Her Tribute to Seed Beads, Long-time Jewels of the Arctic” in Inuit Art Quarterly (Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2004), pp. 12-17.Provenance
Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver;
Private Collection, California.
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