Artist Letia Tarriasuk Audlaluk
Title Untitled - Woman Sewing
Media grey stone carving
Size 6 x 8.5 x 5.5 in. / 15.2 x 21.6 x 14 cm.
Estimate $500 - $700
Notes
signed with disc number on bottom
Reference
according to the consignor, 'A Sugluk piece on labours of motherhood.'
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
Letia Tarriasuk Audlaluk ~ [b.1937] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-972, community Ivujivik