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Artworks
LUCY TASSEOR TUTSWEETOK (1934-2012) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT)
Embracing Figures, c. 1970stone, 2.5 x 2.5 x 1.25 in (6.3 x 6.3 x 3.2 cm)
unsigned.LOT 113
ESTIMATE: $1,800 — $2,800
PRICE REALIZED: $1,830.00Further images
After all these years we are still astonished at how some of Lucy Tasseor’s smallest works manage to look and feel so monumental. At a mere 2.5 inches in height,...After all these years we are still astonished at how some of Lucy Tasseor’s smallest works manage to look and feel so monumental. At a mere 2.5 inches in height, Embracing Figures possesses the commanding presence of sculptures by Tasseor many times its size and weight. This depiction of a couple, or possibly a mother and child, is charged with tremendous energy and almost heroic emotional intensity. Deftly carved in the artist’s early but already mature abstract style from a fragment of stone that weighs almost nothing in the palm of your hand, this stunning miniature exemplifies the epitome of the Arviat sculptural aesthetic.
References: For similarly styled, small-scale sculptures by Tasseor, see George Swinton, Sculpture of the Inuit, (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972/92), figs. 607 and 609, p. 209. See also Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Sculpture / Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971), cats. 236, 286.Provenance
Private Collection, Montreal.
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