Artist Nancy Puqingrnak Aupaluktuaq
Title Untitled - Nude Man
Media black stone carving
Size 12 x 4.75 x 2.75 in. / 30.5 x 12.1 x 7 cm.
Sold $275 Estimate $500 - $700

Notes
signed with syllabics on bottom; two toes missing on left foot

Reference
according to the consignor, 'An almost-Classical representation of solid masculinity.'

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.