#92 • Fred Machetanz "Mighty Hunter!" Print

Part of December 2024 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $625.00

Status: Sold

Category: Art: Alaskan Multiples

A numbered 394/950 print by the late Alaskan artist, Fred Machetanz (1908-2002) entitled "Mighty Hunter!" The work depicts a polar bear sleeping peacefully on an ice floe in the warmth of the late spring sun that is causing floes to show washed grooves on the edges. This mighty hunter, sized as large as an Alaskan brown bear but outfitted with black leathery pads to prevent slippage on the ice, has no need to fear drifting out to sea, for he is a good swimmer and his kind have been seen as far as eighty miles from land. Numbered lower left and hand signed in graphite lower right. Matted within a gold-tone frame measuring approximately 30" x 39.5" overall.