#73 • Bernard Katexac "Tupkit" Woodblock Print

Part of October 2023 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $2,100.00

Status: Sold

Category: Art: Alaskan Multiples

A signed and numbered 1/10 woodblock print entitled "Tupkit" and depicting wood-skin houses on King Island, an Iñupiat village that was forcefully uninhabited by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the mid-1900s and fully abandoned by 1970. Signed in pencil by Iñupiat artist Bernard Tuglamena Katexac (1922-1997), lower left. Print is shrink wrapped on board with minor discoloration, left, and accompanied by a Fairbanks Daily New-Miner article c.1967 about the artist and his exhibition at the University of Alaska Student Union Building. Print measures approximately 25" x 19".