DANCING MIMIHS, c.1960

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
14 October 2009
133

Jimmy Midjaw Midjaw (Mijau Mijau)

(1897 - 1985)
DANCING MIMIHS, c.1960

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

64.0 x 22.5 cm (irregular)

Estimate: 
$5,000 - 7,000
Provenance

Painted at Minjilang, Croker Island, Western Arnhem Land, c.1960
Dorothy Bennett Collection, Darwin
The Barnett Collection, Columbia University, New York
The Australia Gallery, New York
Private collection
Sotheby's, Sydney, 25 November 2007, lot 85
Private collection, Sydney