Artist Aisa Tuluga
Title Untitled - The Defecator I
Media black stone carving
Size 6 x 7 x 6 in. / 15.2 x 17.8 x 15.2 cm.

Notes
signed on bottom; handling marks noted

Reference
according to the consignor, 'In this double exposure this figure flashes prominent genitalia as well as excrement.'

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$200-$400

Artist Aisa Tuluga
Title Untitled - Stretching Seal
Media green mottled stone carving
Size 5.5 x 16 x 4.5 in. / 14 x 40.6 x 11.4 cm.

Notes
bears partial disc number on bottom; bears artist's name and community Povungnituk on Government of Canada certificate included with lot; minor handling marks noted

Provenance
from a central Alberta estate
Estimate CAD$300-$400