LUNGARUNG, 2006

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
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WEAVER JACK

(c.1928 - 2010)
LUNGARUNG, 2006

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

122.0 x 122.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist’s name, date, medium, size and Short Street Gallery cat. 11366

Estimate: 
$6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 20 - 18 May 2011, Melbourne
Provenance

Short Street Gallery, Broome
Private collection, Brisbane
 

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Short Street Gallery, which states: 'This is me, this is mine. The whole lot is me (she points to the x mark in the painting). I bin walking all around, I know him proper way, he is always here (clasps her heart). We are same one, my country is me. He long way that way but he still here’.

The execution of this painting is featured in the 2007 documentary Desert Heart where the painters from Bidyandga journey back to their homelands Wirnpa after 40 years of living at La Grange Bay.