# Helen Kalvak - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T21:02:52.773Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 82
- Lots with prices: 66
- First auction date: 2006-12-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-16
- Median realised price: $180
- Price range: $10 to $1,020

## Market Takeaway
Helen Kalvak shows solid auction liquidity with 82 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $180. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-02-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($180\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $120 and $372.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 98.5% (65 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 1.5% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-16
- Days since latest sale: 367
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Waddington's: 56 lots
- Walker's: 3 lots
- 4th Meridian Fine Art: 2 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers: 2 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- Hoch LTD.: 1 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Lawsons: 1 lots
- Link Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-16 | Helen Kalvak \(Inuit, 1901\-1984\) Sea Monsters, Stone Cut Print | Hoch LTD. | $260
2. 2025-02-08 | Helen Kalvak, Cape Dorset , Sorcerers Nursing Child, 1967, woodcut, ed. 44/51 | Link Auction Galleries | $100
3. 2024-10-25 | Helen Kalvak \(Inuit 1901\-1984\) Festive Dance | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $175
4. 2024-06-20 | Helen Kalvak \(1901\-1984\), WEASEL AND CRANES, 1977 | Waddington's | CA$100
5. 2023-09-28 | Helen Kalvak \(Inuit, 1901\-1984\) Print on Linen | Lion and Unicorn | $15
6. 2023-09-27 | Helen Kalvak 1901\-1984 Dead Spirit LE Litho SIGNED | Hill Auction Gallery | $75
7. 2023-09-27 | Helen Kalvak 1901\-1984 Sorcerers Call Litho SIGNED | Hill Auction Gallery | $200
8. 2023-08-08 | Helen Kalvak \(Inuit 1901\-1984\), "Sorcerers against Sorcerers", 1968, Stonecut \#12, Signed, Titled, and Editioned \#7/50 Frame: 18 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. \(47 x 61.6 cm.\) | Weschler's | $425
9. 2023-06-06 | Helen Kalvak \(1901\-1984\), "Shaman’s Ritual "1970, Stonecut on cream\-colored paper, Sight: 14.5" H x 20.625" W, "Underwater Fisher," 1973, Stonecut on cream\-colored paper, Image/Sheet: 20" H x 30" W, "Magic Power," 1973 | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
10. 2023-01-07 | Helen Kalvak \(1901\-1984\) Canadian Northwest | Sarasota Estate Auction | $50
11. 2022-08-06 | Helen Kalvak \(1901\-1984, Canada\) signed stone cut | Marion Antique Auctions | $70
12. 2021-11-28 | Helen Kalvak, RCA, 
sealskin piecework | 4th Meridian Fine Art | N/A
13. 2020-05-16 | HELEN KALVAK \- Untitled \- Sled | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$70
14. 2019-11-27 | Helen Kalvak, RCA, Hunting Caribou | 4th Meridian Fine Art | N/A
15. 2019-04-15 | Helen Kalvak \(1901\-1984\) \- Fisherman, Stone Cut on Linen. | Pasarel | N/A
16. 2018-09-01 | 1970 Helen Kalvak print Travellers in Sight | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $60
17. 2018-02-16 | \(2\) INUIT PRINTS | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $125
18. 2018-02-01 | HELEN KALVAK \(1901\-1984\), “UNEXPECTED DELICACY” AND “MAN WITH DOG AND BIRD”, \(TWO WORKS\) FORMER \- STONECUT; TITLED, NUMBERED 39/50 AND DATED 1972 \(Sheet, 18” x 24”\) LATTER \- STONECUT; SIGNED, TITLED, NUMBERED 37/40 AND DATED ‘73 \(Sheet, | Waddington's | CA$390
19. 2017-06-05 | Helen Kalvak \(Canadian, 1901\-1984\), stone cut on paper, "Eskimo Western Arctic \- Sorcerer's Nursing a Child," c. 1967, ed. 39/51, bl.. | Winter Associates, Inc. | $125
20. 2017-03-02 | HELEN KALVAK, C.M., R.C.A., E2\-266, HOLMAN / ULUKHAKTOKA FULL POTstonecut, 1984, 45/50, framed21" x 26" — 53.3 x 66 cm.Estimate: $150—250 | Waddington's | CA$156
21. 2016-03-31 | HELEN KALVAK \(1901\-1984\), DANCE, stencil \(framed\), 20" x 30" — 50.8 x 76.2 cm. | Waddington's | CA$168
22. 2015-10-08 | HELEN KALVAK \(INUIT/CANADA 1901\-1984\), LITHOGRAPH ON BURLAP, ...., SIGNED. SIGHT 10 1/4 X 13"; FRAMED AND GLAZED\-15 X 18" | William J Jenack Auctioneers | $45
23. 2015-07-09 | HELEN KALVAK \(1901\-1984\), DON’T BE SO NOISY!, stonecut \(unframed\), 20" x 30" — 50.8 x 76.2 cm. | Waddington's | CA$540
24. 2015-04-30 | HELEN KALVAK \(1901\-1984\), W2\-423, HOLMAN; after MARK EMERAK \(1901\-1983\), KALVAK/EMERAK PORTFOLIO; THE INUIT WAY OF LIFE, stonecuts and stencils; Lithograph \(unframed\), 19.5" x 26" — 49.5 x 66 cm. | Waddington's | N/A

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