Franz Boas

Inuit (1858 - 1942)

Franz Boas was an Inuit artist.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an antler sculpture work attributed to Franz Boas (1858-1942) was C$ - paid for "Kayaker" at Waddington's in Toronto on Thu, Feb 28, 2013.
ArtValue.ca has one auction art sale record for their antler sculpture results, with prices in the range of C$250 to C$500.

Kayaker
hide, ivory, fur, sinew, wood
Dimensions - 8.3 cms x 18.39 cms x 67.89 cms (3.27 ins x 7.24 ins x 3.27 ins)

Lot for sale by Waddington's Auction House, Toronto
Lot# 28
Thu, Feb 28, 2013

Estimate $300 - $500
Sale price withheld

The German-born American anthropologist, Franz Boas, was a specialist in North American Native cultures and languages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Boas made a number of significant contributions in anthropology and ethnography, including the formulation of problems and methods in the human growth, linguistics, mythology, and art of the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast.

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