Not particularly good. Factory painting.
A very quick look at the first 100 or so of the over 550 completed Keil auctions on Liveauctioneers shows that most of his works seem to sell for...
It's OK, I bought the above piece from a major auction house that had it listed as a polar bear. In their defense, if you look at it from the...
Shiloh, I'm not convinced about your otter. Face looks more like a polar bear. Usually otters look more, um, otterish.[ATTACH]
The paintings are enjoying 15 minutes of fame. In other words now is a great time to sell em if you got em.
Seems to be a reproduction or copy of Berthe Morisot's "The Psyche Mirror".
It is definitely Belushi and Ackroyd, just not particularly well done.
The only numbers that are used to identify the artists begin with a prefix of E for Eastern arctic or W for Western. Anything else is an inventory...
Europeans didn't start smoking until fairly recently either. Inuit pieces tend to depict either the present or the relatively recent past.
Here is a picture by Richard Harrington from the Padlei Diaries taken in the early 1950's (iirc). [ATTACH]
There is nothing missing from the piece, that's just how he did the flippers. The bigger question is what exactly is he smoking?
And, just for fun, here is a transformation piece of a shaman/otter:[ATTACH]
here are a couple of Inuit otter sculptures for comparative purposes[ATTACH] [ATTACH] :
Obviously every artist has his/her own style and manner of depicting the subject. What can I say? Some artists make nose-like beaks and put...
The piece hails from Northern Canada not Alaska. The sticker, if I am not mistaken, indicates that the piece was originally purchased by the...
Looks like either Picasso or Georges Braque. Likely either a reproduction or an hommage by a lesser artist.
There are lots of river otters and the subject is relatively common for sculptors from Nunavik, so yeah, they must be experts.
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