Inuit Art Gabriel Gely 1964 Baker Lake # 10 Kayaitok

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Inuit Art Gabriel Gely 1964 Baker Lake # 10 Kayaitok DESCRIPTION Up for auction is this lovely piece by artist, Gabriel Gely. It measures 15 1/2" by 13" and will be shipped out of the frame. The bottom is signed G. Gely, Baker Lake 1964, Kayaitok # 10. INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS ARE WELCOMEHISTORY OF GABRIEL GELY At 73, born in 1924, painter Gabe Gely is still going strong and painting the portraits and the landscape scenes that he fell in love with and lived in for more than half of his life.Gely arrived in Canada in 1952 and got a job as a cook's helper in Ennadai Lake, a weather station west of Hudson Bay. During his employment, Gely noticed that many of the Inuit people were starving and he stole food and gave it to them to stop them from dying.They called him Taraami, meaning "he who comes from downstairs," because the food storage room was located downstairs. "T were very few non-Inuit people t and for some reason, the caribou changed and the Inuit relied solely on them and they were starving to death. Gabe used to sneak food to them out the back door and that was the beginning of his love for them," says Marg Baile, the owner of Arctic Art Gallery in Yellowknife and a close friend of Gely. The Inuit in the area were eventually transferred to the community of Eskimo Point, now called Arviat. Gely remained in the North as an arts read more
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