Artist Peter Pitseolak
Title Untitled - Face and Animals
Media green stone carving
Size 5.25 x 12 x 2.75 in. / 13.3 x 30.5 x 7 cm.
Sold $110
Estimate $300 - $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
Peter Pitseolak ~ [1902-1973] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-970, community Cape Dorset; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers