Artist John Ayek
Title Untitled - Mating Bears
Media grey stone carving
Size 3 x 4.5 x 2.25 in. / 7.6 x 11.4 x 5.7 cm.
Sold $90 Estimate $150 - $200

Notes
signed on bottom; handling marks noted

Reference
according to the consignor, 'The patient female and exhausted male make the ursine couple seem human.'

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.