From celebrated Cape Dorset master carver Toonoo Sharky, this powerful 2025 Bird is an exceptional museum-caliber Inuit sculpture carved in a luminous variegated marble featuring a warm cream-to-buff ground animated by grey dendritic veining and soft rose banding. Rising 13 inches high with a commanding 9 inch depth and 9 1-2 inch width, the raptor-like figure surges forward on robust talons, wings tightly cupped in crisp stepped relief, and an open beak articulated with sharply facetted mandibles. Sharky’s signature eye treatment - inset stone irises with drilled pupils - gives the work an alert presence, while the high satin polish across convex surfaces shifts to tool-defined ridges at the feathers and beak, emphasizing both anatomy and motion. The sculpture is signed to the base and is accompanied by its original Government of Canada Igloo tag certification stating Artist - Toonoo Sharky, Community - Cape Dorset, Title - Bird, Date - 2025. Condition is excellent with only the faintest shelf contact expected from a hand-finished work. A rare large-scale statement by a sought-after contemporary Inuk artist, this piece offers everything discerning collectors pursue - masterful design, impeccable execution, desirable marble stone with dramatic natural veining, authoritative scale, and full certification. Ideal for advanced collections of Canadian Indigenous art, Inuit stone sculpture, and contemporary carving.

Included - original certification tag.
Medium - variegated marble stone.
Dimensions - 9 in x 9 1-2 in x 13 in tall.
Artist - Toonoo Sharky, Cape Dorset - Kinngait, Nunavut.
Date - 2025.

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