Artist Nuyaliaq Qimirpik
Title Untitled - Goose
Media green stone carving
Size 7 x 8.5 x 6 in. / 17.8 x 21.6 x 15.2 cm.
Sold $475
Estimate $400 - $600
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
Nuyaliaq Qimirpik ~ [1937-2007] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-99, community Lake Harbour; see Baffin Island, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983; Sculpture of the North, Surrey Art Gallery, 1978; The Shumiatcher Collection of Inuit Art, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1981; Sculpture of the Inuit, by G.Swinton, pg.195, McClelland and Stewart, 1992; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers