Property from a Private Collection, Melbourne
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.
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