(i) GHOST GUM (ii) MACDONNELL RANGES

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
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ALBERT NAMATJIRA

(1902 - 1959)
(i) GHOST GUM (ii) MACDONNELL RANGES

watercolour over pencil on hardwood, each with a wooden peg attached with sinew and a spinifex resin handle

72.5 and 67.0 cm length

one signed lower right: ALBERT NAMATJIRA
each inscribed verso: ABORIGINAL HANDICRAFT / HERMANNSBURG / CENTRAL AUSTRALIA an

Estimate: 
$5,000 - 7,000 (2)
Sold for $8,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 20 - 18 May 2011, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne