Artist Peter Komak
Title Untitled - Bear Eating Seal
Media grey stone carving
Size 1 x 4 x 2.25 in. / 2.5 x 10.2 x 5.7 cm.
Sold $100
Estimate $300 - $400
Notes
indistinctly inscribed on bottom
Reference
artist's name from consignor
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
Peter Komak ~ [1911-1984] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E1-237, community Eskimo Point / Arviat