Basil Aptanik, Inuit Stone Carved Figure with Wonderful Face and Bone Tool letterpress print block Quite a wonderful thing

Quite a wonderful thing

and black outlines delineating fingers and fingernails

and while not pushing do think it would be especially wonderful hung in a grouping with at least one of the other two paintings from the same series I have in the shop (see last photo to see what I mean)

I might keep these on the desk to bring some levity to even the worst work day

These are highly collectible and among Tonka's most iconic designs

Basil Aptanik, Inuit Stone Carved Figure with Wonderful Face and Bone Tool letterpress print block Quite a wonderful thingThis may be my favorite piece of Inuit sculpture I've owned, which is saying a lot, and I'll be very glad to keep this one for myself. It was created (and signed in syllabics) by carver and printmaker Basil Aptanik (b. 1952) of Baker Lake, Nunavut Territory in Canada and I believe dates to the 1980s. Stepson of the late carver and printmaker Martha Aptanik and stepbrother of the late sculptor Paul Toolooktook, Basil Aptanik's sculptures most often