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Lot 44
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GEORGE MUNG MUNG

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 AUD
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Description

  • George Mung Mung
  • FROG HOLLOW NEAR TURKEY CREEK
  • Bears artist's name, size and Waringarri Aboriginal Arts catalogue numbers S-1279 and AP:1388 and the letters BDJ on the reverse
  • Natural and synthetic pigments and binders with pencil on canvas
  • 100 by 80 cm

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra
Private collection

Condition

The painting is in relatively good and stable condition for an artist of this period, with only very minor area's of pigment loss and minor scuffing. The painting has had no restoration or repairs and is housed in a contemporary hardwood frame.
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Catalogue Note

Cf. For other examples of the artist's characteristic depictions of the Kimberley landscape see Jirling the hunter, 1989, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, in Ryan, J. and K. Akerman (eds.), Images of Power: Aboriginal art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p.48, illus; and Binoowoon country, 1990, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, in Caruana, W., Aboriginal Art, World of Art Series, Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2003, p.180, plate 157, illus

In this typically animated rendition of the landscape, Mung Mung has depicted elements in both plan and aerial view: the arabesques of flowing water in the upper register of the painting graphically imitate the undulating hills and limestone ridges in the lower section. The artist incorporates an image of the Rainbow Serpent in the top left indicating the presence of the ancestral forces that vivify the land

This painting is sold with documentation from Waringarri Aboriginal Arts