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Yirawala circa 1905-1976
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- Untitled
- Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark (eucalyptus tetradonta)
- 70cm by 45cm
Bears inscription ‘Na-Wor Mimi (Moon Man)’ ‘artist - Bob Malia-Mali, moiety – Yirritja, tribe - Gunwinngu’ on the reverse
Provenance
Likely to have been painted at Minjilang, (Croker Island) circa 1970
Deutscher Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art and a Collection of New Ireland Malagan (sic) Sculptures, Melbourne, 27 June 2000, lot 21 (incorrectly catalogued as by Bob Balirr Balirr Dirdi)
The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands
Deutscher Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art and a Collection of New Ireland Malagan (sic) Sculptures, Melbourne, 27 June 2000, lot 21 (incorrectly catalogued as by Bob Balirr Balirr Dirdi)
The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands
Literature
Georges Petitjean, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, The AAMU and Dutch Collections, Uitgeverij Snoeck, The Netherlands, 2010, p.91 illus.
Cf. Sandra Le Brun Holmes, Yirawala Painter of the Dreaming, Hodde♈r & Stoughton, Sydney, 1992, for numerous related depictions of figurative beings, now in the collection of the National Galꦿlery of Australia.