Artist Nancy Kuptana
Title Two Walruses Mating
Media green stone carving
Dated 2013
Size 3.25 x 5.25 x 3 in. / 8.3 x 13.3 x 7.6 cm.
Sold $27 Estimate $80 - $100

Notes
signed and dated on bottom; scratches and handling marks noted throughout

Reference
according to the consignor, 'The bawdy spirit is implicit in the artists’ appreciation of any animal mating.'

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.