YARRINYA, 2013

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
64

BARAYAUWA MUNUNGGURR

born 1980
YARRINYA, 2013

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

192.0 x 75.0 cm

bears inscription on Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts label verso: artist’s name, location and cat. 4535Q

Estimate: 
$4,000 – 6,000
Sold for $5,856 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory
The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane

Exhibited

Primavera 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney, 24 September – 30 November 2014

This work is accompanied by a certificate from Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts which states: ‘Barayuwa has painted his mother’s Munyuku clan’s design, inspired by her brother, the late ritual specialist and artist Dula Nurruwutthun. It is associated with the ancestral events relating to the death of an ancestral whale called Mirinyunu on the beaches of the Munyuku saltwater estate of the Yarrinya within Blue Mud Bay.’