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Artworks
LUKE ANOWTALIK (1932-2006) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT)
Family Group, late 1990sstone, 8.5 x 7.5 x 4.25 in (21.6 x 19.1 x 10.8 cm)
signed, "ᐊᓇᐅᑕᓕ".
LOT 30
ESTIMATE: $4,000 — $6,000Further images
While Arviat sculptors John Pangnark and Andy Miki concentrated on single human or animal forms reduced to their purest contours, fellow Arviat artists Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, Mary Ayaq, and Ayaq’s...While Arviat sculptors John Pangnark and Andy Miki concentrated on single human or animal forms reduced to their purest contours, fellow Arviat artists Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, Mary Ayaq, and Ayaq’s husband, Luke Anowtalik, espoused a “busier” aesthetic. In some examples by Anowtalik there is no surface that is left undecorated. In this wonderful sculpture, Anowtalik populates the stone’s surface with heads and faces both large and small, creating a wonderful sense of “all-overness.” One wonders whether Anowtalik is depicting his extended family, perhaps even including ancestors who have gone before yet still make up the fabric of the Inuit family. We love the rough-hewn details and omnipresent tool marks which act almost as Anowtalik’s fingerprints.
References: For similarly styled stone sculptures 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), cat. 136, p. 160. See also First Arts, Toronto, 1 December 2020, Lot 128; and First Arts, Toronto, 14 June 2022, Lot 63.
Provenance
Private Collection, Toronto.
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