Lot 158
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GEORGE MUNG MUNG

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 AUD
bidding is closed

Description

  • George Mung Mung
  • WUDAL WUDAL (THE DREAMTIME WOMAN)
  • Bears artist's name, size and Waringarri Aboriginal Arts catalogue numbers S-1341 and AP1603BJ on the reverse
  • Natural earth pigments and syntehtic binder on canvas
  • 80 by 100 cm

Provenance

Painted in 1990 at Frog Hollow for Waringarri Aboriginal Arts Corporation, Kununurra
Emerald Hill Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection
Sotheby's, Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 15 - 16 November 2005, lot 96
Private collection, Indonesia

Condition

The majority of the pigments are in a sound and stable condition and there have been no visible repairs or restoration. There are a number of small areas of losses to the white pigmented dots and a minor scratch approximately 20mm long in the black ground and one white dot in the lower right register
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