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Artworks
LUKE AIRUT (1942-2018) IGLULIK (IGLOOLIK)
Hunter in Pursuit of a Muskoxwhalebone and ivory, 2 x 2.5 x 1 in (5.1 x 6.3 x 2.5 cm)
signed, "LUKE / AIRUT".LOT 71
ESTIMATE: $200 — $400
PRICE REALIZED: $144.00Further images
A skilled carver in his own right, time spent studying jewellery design at Nunavut Arctic College helped to hone Luke Airut's eye for small, fine details. In this work, the...A skilled carver in his own right, time spent studying jewellery design at Nunavut Arctic College helped to hone Luke Airut's eye for small, fine details. In this work, the figures — themselves not even two inches tall — have delightful movement and grace as they run along the landscape.Provenance
Private Collection, Toronto.Literature
For an overview of the artist's life and work, see Sonia Gunderson "Lukie Airut: Igloolik’s Carving Wizard" in Inuit Art Quarterly (Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 2006).
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