Artist Lucassie Echalook
Title Untitled - Bear and Hunter
Media green stone carving
Size 10 x 7.25 x 6 in. / 25.4 x 18.4 x 15.2 cm.
Sold $160
Estimate $400 - $600
Notes
signed with syllabics and inscribed 'C5-59079' on bottom
Provenance
The Yacowar-Petrie collection, 50 years in the making, comes from two longtime Calgarians now retired in Victoria, B.C. Anne Petrie was the award-winning CBC TV journalist [Petrie on Prime, etc.] and author [Gone to an Aunt’s]. English/Film Studies Professor Maurice Yacowar had a double stint at the University of Calgary, as the founding [and the first fired] editor of the student paper, The Gauntlet, then as Dean of Fine Arts.
Biographical Information
Lucassie Echalook ~ [b.1904] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-1582, community Port Harrison / Inukjuak; listed under Echaluk on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; listed on www.artprice.com; listed on www.artprice.com