# Tuna Iquliq artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tuna-iquliq/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:17:19.743Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity



## About Tuna Iquliq

Tuna Iquliq (1935–2015) is documented as an artist associated with Baker Lake, Nunavut. Collectors may also encounter the spelling Toona Iqulik, which Art UK uses for its artist record. Matching entries in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Art UK provide a useful authority trail for distinguishing the artist across collection, catalogue, and auction data. The available institutional records establish Iquliq's identity and lifespan, but this source pack does not document a formal movement, detailed chronology, named series, or a reliable list of recurring subjects. Those gaps make it important to avoid assigning stylistic labels that the collected evidence cannot support. Collectors encounter Iquliq's name through a substantial body of indexed auction records spanning several broad object categories. When researching a particular work, spelling variants, inscriptions, medium, dimensions, date, provenance, and attribution should be checked together rather than relying on the name alone.

## Common works and media

The collected auction index groups records under fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Because the source pack does not provide object-level examples or an institutionally supported medium profile, these should be treated as broad auction classifications rather than a definitive catalogue of Iquliq's practice. For an individual object, identify the exact material, technique, dimensions, inscriptions, edition status, condition, and provenance before selecting comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily market snapshot reports 187 source-directory records and 149 tracked lots, with a median realized result of about $360. Its latest recorded sale is dated August 24, 2023, and it records no sales during the stated trailing twelve-month period. These figures describe one collected public-auction dataset, not a current price guarantee. An appraisal should compare the object with genuinely similar lots and examine medium, size, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, and attribution confidence. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, buyer's premiums, currency treatment, and later catalogue revisions can limit direct comparisons, so a headline median should not replace object-specific research.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Coverage may exclude private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55219577
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/iqulik-toona-19352015
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500126871
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96617880/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tuna-iquliq/