Artist Harry Sala
Title Untitled - Mother Stooped Over Child
Media grey stone carving
Size 6.5 x 8.25 x 5.5 in. / 16.5 x 21 x 14 cm.
Sold $100
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed with disc number 'E9-1497' on bottom and inscribed 'Johnsialuk'; some handling marks noted
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
Harry Sala ~ Inuit