Artist Andy Miki
Title Untitled - Animal
Media black stone carving
Size 7 x 5.5 x 2 in. / 17.8 x 14 x 5.1 cm.
Sold $1,400
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Notes
signed with syllabics on bottom
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
Andy Miki ~ [1918-1983] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E1-436, community Eskimo Point / Arviat; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; listed on www.artprice.com