Artist Tuna Iquliq
Title Untitled - Inuk Boxing
Media green stone carving
Size 6.75 x 3.25 x 3 in. / 17.1 x 8.3 x 7.6 cm.
Sold $110
Estimate $150 - $250
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
Tuna Iquliq ~ [1935-2015] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E2-167, community Baker Lake; 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