Artist Inuit School
Title Untitled - Phallic Fish
Media grey stone carving
Size 5 x 7.75 x 4.25 in. / 12.7 x 19.7 x 10.8 cm.
Sold $60 Estimate $200 - $400

Notes
unsigned; inscribed '85919' on bottom of fish

Reference
according to the consignor, 'A playful meld of two fertility contexts, the sexual and nature, not completely separate.'

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.