Artist Eugene Ipkarnak
Title Untitled - Nude Woman
Media bone carving
Size 12 x 4.75 x 2.75 in. / 30.5 x 12.1 x 7 cm.
Sold $50 Estimate $200 - $400

Notes
signed on bottom

Reference
according to the consignor, 'This is an unusually grim example of character emerging from the source material. The whalebone makes the woman aged, craggy, precarious.'

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.