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Property from a Private Collection, Melbourne

Samuel Wagbara

Namarnday Spirits Dancing

Auction Closed

May 20, 09:03 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Samuel Wagbara

1928 - 1979


Namarnday Spirits Dancing, 1960

Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

29 in x 17 ¼ in (74 cm x 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, November 9, 1997, lot 3, consigned by the above

Private Collection, United States of America, acquired at the above auction

Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired in 2021

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.