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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: LUKE AIRUT (1942-2018) IGLULIK (IGLOOLIK), Hunter in Pursuit of a Muskox
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: LUKE AIRUT (1942-2018) IGLULIK (IGLOOLIK), Hunter in Pursuit of a Muskox
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    LUKE AIRUT (1942-2018) IGLULIK (IGLOOLIK)

    Hunter in Pursuit of a Muskox
    whalebone 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: $144.00

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) LUKE IKSIKTAARYUK (1909-1977) QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Fishing Through Ice, 1971 (1972 #11)
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) LUKE IKSIKTAARYUK (1909-1977) QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Fishing Through Ice, 1971 (1972 #11)
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) LUKE IKSIKTAARYUK (1909-1977) QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Fishing Through Ice, 1971 (1972 #11)
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) LUKE IKSIKTAARYUK (1909-1977) QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Fishing Through Ice, 1971 (1972 #11)
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) LUKE IKSIKTAARYUK (1909-1977) QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Fishing Through Ice, 1971 (1972 #11)
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) LUKE IKSIKTAARYUK (1909-1977) QAMANI’TUAQ (BAKER LAKE), Fishing Through Ice, 1971 (1972 #11)
    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...
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    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.
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    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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