Artist Eliyah Palituq
Title Untitled - Constipation
Media black stone carving
Size 3 x 3 x 3.25 in. / 7.6 x 7.6 x 8.3 cm.
Sold $120 Estimate $100 - $200

Notes
signed and inscribed 'C84', 'DB', '10308' on bottom; handling marks noted

Reference
according to the consignor, 'This lad is so reduced to squeezing that he has shrunk to that compulsion. The bottom details the full genitalia.'

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.