Artist Lucy Tutsweetok Tasseor
Title Untitled - Igloo Coupling
Media grey stone carving
Size 5.5 x 5 x 3 in. / 14 x 12.7 x 7.6 cm.
Sold $180
Estimate $200 - $400
Notes
signed with syllabics on bottom
Reference
according to the consignor, 'This typical Tasseor abstraction of faces has two in copulating position, ignoring the third, as one assumes happens in igloo life'
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
Lucy Tutsweetok Tasseor ~ [1934-2012] Inuit
disc number E1-135; other examples in Sculpture / Inuit, by the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, pl.236, University of Toronto Press, 1971; Sculpture of the Inuit, by G.Swinton, pl.607-614, McClelland and Stewart, 1992; included in Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984;listed on www.katilvik.com