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GEORGE ARLUK, INUIT, Composition, late 1970s
GEORGE ARLUK, INUIT, Composition, late 1970s
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Lot 84
GEORGE ARLUK (1949-) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT)
Composition, late 1970s


stone, 13.25 x 9 x 4 in (33.7 x 22.9 x 10.2 cm)
signed, "ᐊᓗ ".

Provenance
An American Private Collection.

George Arluk began carving at the tender age of nine during his childhood years in Rankin Inlet. He copied the works of older artists, particularly Tiktak; after his move to Arviat he absorbed the influences of Pangnark and Tasseor, but had developed a personal style by the early 1970s. Arluk’s mature works are characterized by their dynamic sense of movement in which abstracted forms weave in and out in dance-like rhythms. While all of his works contain at least one face, some sculptures look more like human figures than others do. Composition is a good case in point: its playful, sinuous shapes likely conjure up ideas about musical rhythm or dreams or spirits rather than the human figure.

References

A quite similar work is illustrated on the cover of the solo exhibition catalogue George Arluk: The Song in the Stone (San Francisco: Images of the North, 1979) cat. 17; the catalogue illustrates 27 works from the late 1970s. See also Gerald McMaster, editor, Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2010), pp. 110 and 128-129.
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GEORGE ARLUK, INUIT, Composition, late 1970s

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