ROVER THOMAS (JOOLAMA)

Painted at Kununurra for Waringarri Arts and Crafts circa 1994
Private collection
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July 2001, lot 179
Private collection, USA

This painting appears in very good and stable condition overall with a few areas of very minor pigment loss to a small number of the white pigmented dots
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Accompanying this painting when last sold by Sotheby's was a Waringarri Arts certificate that read: "Punmu is now an Aboriginal Community and is located at the Great Sandy Desert along the Kidson Track in Western Australia. The community is surrounded by big sand dunes and sits on the edge of a large salt lake called Lake Dora. This salt lake is associated with an incident in the artist's early life as a stockman. While he was travelling through the country he saw the lake and climbed off his camel to get drinking water. He brought back a billy can full and took a sip but the water was too salty to drink and he had to travel on to find fresh water. When the artist revisited the country he was inspired to make several paintings of the area".