Artist Pierre Karlik
Title Untitled - Totem of Carved Animals
Media bone and stone carving
Dated
ca. 1960
Size 4.75 x 2.5 x 2 in. / 12.1 x 6.4 x 5.1 cm.
Sold $210
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed and inscribed with syllabics on bottom; bears date on label included with lot
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
Pierre Karlik ~ [1931-2013] Canadian
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E3-145, community Rankin Inlet; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website