MARINE CREATURES, c.1956

Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
25 March 2009
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ARTIST UNKNOWN (GROOTE EYLANDT)

MARINE CREATURES, c.1956

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

69.5 x 44.0 cm

Estimate: 
$4,000 - 5,000
Provenance

Painted on Groote Eylandt
Collected in the late 1950s by Valentine Smith, a marine engineer with John Bourke Shipping
Private collection, Melbourne