Artist Nuveeya Ipellie
Title Untitled - Proud Muskox
Media green stone and bone carving
Size 7 x 11 x 5.5 in. / 17.8 x 27.9 x 14 cm.
Sold $650
Estimate $500 - $700
Notes
unsigned
Reference
artist's name from consignor
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
Nuveeya Ipellie ~ [1920-2010] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-509, community Frobisher Bay; see Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984; other examples in The First Passionate Collector, by D.Wight, pl.78, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1990