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.

Madras en coton de l’Empereur Napoléon Ier à Sainte-Hélène, 1818-1819

Estimate:20,000 - 30,000 EUR

Parements de manteau de grandes cérémonies de Maréchal de l'Empire, vers 1809-1810, ayant appartenu au maréchal Nicolas-Charles Oudinot

Estimate:30,000 - 50,000 EUR

Byzantine, probably Constantinople, early 14th century

The Hodegetria Mother of God

Estimate:160,000 - 200,000 GBP

Fragment du manteau de Napoléon Bonaparte porté à la bataille de Marengo en 1800

Estimate:20,000 - 30,000 EUR

Ensemble de vêtements ayant appartenu à l’Empereur Napoléon, 1800-1820

Estimate:50,000 - 80,000 EUR

Plaque de Grand Aigle de la Légion d’honneur de l’Empereur Napoléon Ier en argent, vers 1810, le modèle attribué à Martin-Guillaume Biennais

Estimate:150,000 - 200,000 EUR

A Flemish parcel-gilt silver stag cup, Mons, probably 1642, maker's mark LD(?) under a crown

Estimate:120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Assiette en porcelaine de Sèvres du service Egyptien commandé par l'Impératrice douairière Joséphine, 1811

Estimate:80,000 - 120,000 EUR

Exceptionnel ensemble de vêtements ayant appartenu au Roi de Rome, vers 1811

Estimate:50,000 - 80,000 EUR

A large pair of Flemish silver candlesticks, Philippe Moermans Le Vieux, Antwerp, 1674-1675

Estimate:30,000 - 40,000 GBP