Artist Temela Oopik
Title Untitled - Girl Washing
Media green stone carving
Size 5 x 2.25 x 3 in. / 12.7 x 5.7 x 7.6 cm.
Estimate $200 - $300

Notes
signed with syllabics on bottom

Reference
according to the consignor, 'The girl is characterized by her small breasts, vagina, toes, satisfied smile and soap-bar. But her long flowing hair lies abstracted, blanked of sensuous detail [unlike Oviloo’s textured sweeps of hair]. Despite its teasing subject matter, this Oopik beams innocence.'

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.