Artist Pitsiula Qimirpik
Title Untitled - Mating Couple
Media black stone carving
Size 5.75 x 9 x 4.5 in. / 14.6 x 22.9 x 11.4 cm.
Estimate $600 - $900
Notes
signed 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
Pitsiula Qimirpik ~ [b.1967] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-2457, community Frobisher Bay