Artist Tommy Tukpanie Jr.
Title Untitled - Mating Seals
Media green stone carving
Size 3.5 x 7.25 x 3.75 in. / 8.9 x 18.4 x 9.5 cm.

Notes
signed and dated on bottom

Reference
according to the consignor, 'What this piece lacks in the graphic it makes up for in the grace of its curve.'

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.
Estimate CAD$150-$250