Lot 79
  • 79

DAVID DAYMIRRINGU MALANGI

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 AUD
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Description

  • David Daymirringu Malangi
  • GUNMIRRINGGU MORTUARY RITES
  • Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
  • 114 by 81 cm

Provenance

Painted at Milingimbi, Crocodile Islands, Central Arnhem Land circa in the late 1960s
Jerome Gould, Los Angeles
Private collection

Condition

The bark is attached to a lightweight stretcher and mounted to a hessian backed frame and appears in a very good and stable condition. There is some crazing in the pigments, though the bark has suffered very little pigment loss and is in particuarly good condition for a bark of this size, region and period
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Catalogue Note

Cf. Manarrngu Mortuary Rites – The Great Hunter Gurrumirringu, 1960s, in O'Ferrall, M.A., Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhemland in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990, p.68, pl.76; Manharrngu mortuary rites, 1966, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, in Ryan, J. et al, Land Marks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006, p.34; and Gurrmirringu the Great Hunter, 1969, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, in Jenkins, S. (ed.), No Ordinary Place: The Art of David Malangi, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2004, p.76, pl.22, illus.