MICKEY BUNGKUNI

Almost certainly painted in the Mowanjum community, in the West Kimberley, Western Australia in the mid 1960s
Private collection

The bark appears in relatively good and stable condition for a painting from this region and period. There appear to be many minor areas of pigment loss throughout the work with remaining pigment appearing to be mostly stable.
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Cf. For related examples see Berndt, R. M. and C. H. Berndt with J. Stanton, Aboriginal Australian Art, A Visual Perspective, Methuen, Australia, 1982; Stanton, J., Painting the Country, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley Region, Western Australia, The University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1989