Artist Alex Alikashuak
Title Untitled - Dream of Spirits
Media black and grey stone carving
Size 4 x 8.25 x 2.75 in. / 10.2 x 21 x 7 cm.

Notes
signed and inscribed with syllabics on bottom

Provenance
from a private collection
Estimate CAD$400-$600

Artist Alex Alikashuak
Title Untitled - Elongated Spirit
Media bone carving
Size 12.5 x 2.5 x 4 in. / 31.8 x 6.4 x 10.2 cm.

Notes
unsigned

Provenance
from a private collection
Estimate CAD$300-$400

Artist Alex Alikashuak
Title Couple
Media grey stone carving
Dated 1999
Size 8.5 x 5.75 x 3 in. / 21.6 x 14.6 x 7.6 cm.

Notes
bears artist's name, title and date on label included with lot

Reference
according to the consignor, 'In Alikashuak's signature style, the lovers melt into or ascend into an abstraction.'

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$500-$700

Artist Alex Alikashuak
Title Whale Cove
Media stone carving
Dated 1997
Size 7.5 x 5.75 x 2 in. / 19 x 14.6 x 5.1 cm.

Notes
signed with syllabics and dated along bottom; bears artist's name and title on label; several handling marks noted

Estimate CAD$500-$600