Inuk with Bedroll Inuit Eskimo Art Soapstone Carving by Lucassie Echalook \'83
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Inuk with Bedroll Inuit Eskimo Art Soapstone Carving by Lucassie Echalook \'83:
$152.50
Great Inuk Soapstone Carvingby talented Inuit Artist Lucassie Echalook
Here is a wonderful carving by Inuit artist Lucassie Echalook. Snapshot of life from a traditional camping scene, this Inuk has just finished rolling up a camp bedroll or skins. Beautifully proportioned.
Excellent condition. Dated 1983, with the artist name in Inuktitut syllabics. You can clearly read the Lu-Ka-Si, and part of the last name Echalook (I-ka—Lu) is slightly obscured by the bilingual Canada Eskimo Art label. Also inscribed 17263. Finely detailed eyes and hair.Size: 3\"H X 3\" L X 1.5\" W ( 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 4 cm)
Weight: a little over 500 grams (1 1/8th lbs)About the Artist
First Name: Lucassie Last Name: Echalook Community: Inukjuak Sex: M Disc Number: E91648 Date born: 08/09/1942
Alternative Names: • Echalook Echalook • Lucassie Echalook • Echaluk EchalookLucassie Echalook was born on August 9, 1942 at a small hunting camp situated not far from Inukjuak (Port Harrison) on the shores of Hudson Bay. Lucassie spent his childhood being taught hunting skills by his father. His family endured considerable hardship following his father’s death in 1950; much of this time he spent hungry and improperly clothed. Eventually Lucassie married Martha Aculiak, and they have five children.
Lucassie is regarded by his peers as a prolific carver; during the spring he is known to continue carving when he and his wife leave the settlement.* In 2009, a very special carving by Lucassie Echalook was presented to the then Governor General Michel Jean when she visited the community of Inukjuak.
In his carvings, Lucassie often shows a preference for carving solid masses; the figures, animals and hunting implements are detailed in a compact space. Many of Lucassie’s sculptures have a quite distinctive feature where he aligns the hands or faces along the foreground edge of the block of stone. Faces or torsos will be distorted into angular planes that converge abruptly. His faces can also be distinguished by their prominent almond-shaped eyes, broad noses and wide mouths.
Lucassie\'s favourite subjects were hunting or camp scenes, and on occasion carves spirit figures, and shamanic transformations. With the exception of the rough mottled bases, his work was highly polished.
Lucassie also produced stoneblock prints for the 1975 Arctic Quebec Print catalogue and the 1976 Inukjuak print collection. His works have been widely exhibited in at least seventeen different exhibitions throughout Canada and United States.
Adapted from : Barry Roberts, “The Inuit Artists of Inoucdjouac, P.Q.”, 1978
Exhibits:• Arctic Quebec Print Collection *75 (annual collection) • Inoucdjouac Print Collection *76 (annual collection) • The Eskimo Art Collection of the Toronto-Dominion Bank exhibition held by Toronto-Dominion Bank • Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of Prints exhibition held by University of Alberta • Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada National Museum of Man, Ottawa and Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd. • The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection of Inuit Art exhibition held by Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina • The Arctic/L\'Artique exhibition held by UNESCO • Hunting in the Arctic exhibition held by Alberta Provincial Museum and Archives • Inuit Graphics from the Past exhibition held by Arctic Artistry • Mother exhibition held by Gallery Indigena • Eskimo Prints from Nouveau-Quebec 1974-1978 exhibition held by Ufundi Gallery • The Spirit of the Land exhibition held by the Koffler Gallery • Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection of Inuit Art exhibition held byCanadian Guild of Crafts Quebec • Tundra & Ice: Stone Images of Animals and Man presented by Orca Aart at the Adventurers\' Club • Stories in Stone: Soapstone Sculptures From Northern Quebec and Kenya exhibition held by La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec • Art/Inuit/Art: The Rothmans Permanent Collection of Eskimo Sculpture exhibition held by Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.
Inuk with Bedroll Inuit Eskimo Art Soapstone Carving by Lucassie Echalook \'83:
$152.50