# Judas Ullulaq artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:39:31.413Z
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## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Sculpture, Whale-bone sculpture

## About Judas Ullulaq

Judas Ullulaq (1937–1999) was a Canadian Inuk artist and sculptor whose public authority records identify him as an Inuit sculptor. Collectors most often encounter his work through sculpture, particularly compositions centered on human, animal, or combined figural forms. A documented 1991 untitled sculpture in whale bone illustrates one material found in his carved work, although that single object is not a complete account of his practice. Library and vocabulary records connect the preferred name Judas Ullulaq with variants including Ooloolah, Judas and Judas Ullulak, which can help reconcile catalogue and auction entries. The available sources do not establish a named art movement, formal series, or exact birth and death dates, so this page uses the verified years and avoids a more specific chronology. Ullulaq's work appears in appraisal contexts chiefly as Inuit sculpture, where artist identity, subject, material, and object-specific documentation need to be considered together.

## Common works and media

Ullulaq is documented primarily as a sculptor. The available biographical source characterizes his work as mainly figural and zoomorphic, so auction listings may present human figures, animals, or combined forms. The source pack also documents a 1991 untitled whale-bone sculpture. That example confirms whale bone as one material he used, not as a complete inventory of his media. No reliable evidence in this pack establishes paintings, prints, editions, ceramics, posters, or named series.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, first establish whether the object fits Ullulaq's documented sculptural practice and whether its subject is figural, animal-based, or a combination of forms. Material identification also matters: the source pack documents at least one 1991 whale-bone sculpture, but it does not establish whale bone as universal or dominant across his output. Catalogue-name matching should account for authority-file variants such as Ooloolah and Ullulak. The present source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house biography or comparable-sale detail, so it cannot support a price trend, market direction, or blanket value range. A defensible valuation therefore requires object-level documentation and relevant public auction comparables beyond this identity research.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity claims on this page are grounded in the cited public authority and reference sources.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96625629/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56025104
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500127694
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Ullulaq
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sculpture_inuit_(Montr%C3%A9al,_Canada)_(274814421).jpg