JILJI, 2006

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
4 April 2012
87

WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE

(c.1929 - 2011)
JILJI, 2006

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

120.5 x 59.5 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name and Mangkaja Arts cat. 4/06

Estimate: 
$3,000 - 4,000
Provenance

Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing
Short Street Gallery, Broome
Private collection, Sydney
 

Catalogue text

The artist states of this work: 'Jilji (sandhills) “This my brother's country. long time ago we walk around everywhere, them Jilji very big, big ones we walk through in that middle bit – Jilji not so big. Long time ago waljirri (dreamtime) people walking here everywhere. We bin living out here, make him camp out here when I was little.”'