Property from a Private Collection, Melbourne
Jimmy Mijau Mijau
Untitled (Rock Python and Flying Foxes)
Auction Closed
May 20, 09:03 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jimmy Mijau Mijau
circa 1897 - 1985
Untitled (Rock Python and Flying Foxes), 1960
Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
Bears a Dorothy Bennett label on the reverse
27 ¾ in x 21 ¼ in (71 cm x 54 cm)
Painted in Western Arnhem Land, circa 1960
Dorothy Bennett, Darwin
American Private Collection
Bonhams, Sydney, Aboriginal Art, November 18, 2012, lot 17
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired at the above auction
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017
See Wally Caruana, Aboriginal Art, London, 1989, pp. 30-33, pl. 5 for a closely related painting of the same subject matter, collected by Karel Kupka, and now in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.