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Artist Lucy Tutsweetok Tasseor
Title Untitled - Staying Warm
Media grey stone carving
Size 9 x 9 x 4 in. / 22.9 x 22.9 x 10.2 cm.
Sold $275 Estimate $500 - $700

Notes
unsigned; carving number '0016-0119' on label 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
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

Historical Results for this Artist

Sold
CAD $275 - Paddle # 102293
Bidding History
Paddle #
Date
Amount
102293
3/8/2025 2:00:50 PM
CAD $275
101815
2/26/2025 2:21:16 PM
CAD $250

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

Historical Results for this Artist

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