MARDAYIN AT MUKKAMUKKA, 1998

Beyond Sacred: Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection
Sydney
8 March 2015
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JOHN MAWURNDJUL

born 1952
MARDAYIN AT MUKKAMUKKA, 1998

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

158.0 x 78.0 cm

inscribed on label verso: artist's name, medium and Maningrida Arts and Culture cat. 7922

Estimate: 
$25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $66,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 38 - 8 March 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory (label and certificate of authenticity attached verso)
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (label attached verso)
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, purchased in October 1998

Exhibited

World of Dreamings, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, 2 February – 9 April 2000 (illus. p. 9 in catalogue)
Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 8 September – 19 November 2000
Ngurra Kutu (Going Home), a tribute to Turkey Tolson, Yiribana Gallery at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, September 2001 – June 2002

Literature

Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, p. 283 (illus.)
Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, edition II, Kleimeyer Industries Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2011, pp. 45, 315 (illus.)