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Samuel Wagbara

Namarnday Spirits Dancing, 1960

Auction Closed

May 25, 09:41 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Samuel Wagbara

Circa 1928 - 1979

Namarnday Spirits Dancing, 1960


Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

29 in by 17 ¼ in (74 cm by 44 cm)

Painted at Minjilang, Croker Island, Western Arnhem Land
Dorothy Bennett, Darwin
Wesfarmers Limited, Perth, acquired from the above in 1989
Sotheby’s, Sydney, Aboriginal and Tribal Art, 9 November 1997, lot 3, consigned by the above
Private Collection, acquired at the above auction
See Michaela Appel, ed., Inspired by Country: Bark Paintings from Northern Australia, Munich, 2022, p.264, cat. no. 105, for a closely related example in the collection of the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich, and see two others in the collections of the Australian Museum and the Art Gallery of New South Wales published in Hetti Perkins, Crossing Country: The Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art, Sydney, 2004, p. 28 and p. 230.