Artist Lucassie Tukai
Title Old Fish
Media green stone carving
Dated ca. 1953
Size 2.5 x 4.25 x 1.5 in. / 6.4 x 10.8 x 3.8 cm.
Sold $100 Estimate $80 - $100

Notes
signed with syllabics and inscribed 'E-91773' on bottom; bears title on label included with lot

Reference
according to the consignor, 'circa 1953. For a very similar example see Port Harrison/Inoucjuac [WAG] p.67, #39'

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.