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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.